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immortalbarnes · 4 years

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A Cabin For Two | Chapter 1: Here Comes the Sun

Bucky Barnes x Reader

summary: you and Bucky live another day in paradise and visit an old friend

warnings: just a little angst... and some internalized anger towards Steve Rogers

A/N: mainly a setup chapter, also this is my way of letting out pent out emotions towards the writers of endgame’s decision of sending Steve back in time

prologue

A normal day in the cabin consisted of semi-early mornings with something sizzling on the stove and the strong fragrance of coffee wafting through the dewy morning air. To the normal person, life in the middle-of-nowhere-New-York seems isolating and boring, but for two ex-hydra elite super soldiers, there is nothing better.

As Bucky brews a fresh batch of dark roasted perfection, you flip the finale of the stack of pancakes he suggested to make in bed some time earlier, and there is comfortable silence between the two of you, as you hear the coffee maker sing and feel your pristine white cat, Alpine, rub against your ankles.

Bucky comes up behind you and wraps his built arms around your waist, humming a Sinatra song you both originally missed out on in the 50’s. You smile, tossing the final silver dollar pancakes onto the tray to your right. He slips back away from you in time to turn off the stove and turn to see him now reaching out for you to dance with him as he begins to sing the words of a totally different song, probably from an entirely different era. (70 years of music is hard to catch up on)

“Here comes the sun…” He quietly sings to you as you step into his embrace, “And I say… It’s all right.” He serenades you, off key as his voice is still sleepy and gravelly, as you slow dance in the kitchen, Alpine circling you two.

“That’s not what you were humming earlier.” You contentedly point out.

“Forgot the words to that one,” He replies and continues singing The Beatles song.

“Doo-dun-doo-doo”

After he slowly closes out the tune, you gather your pancakes, syrup, coffee (of course), and some assorted fruits, and go out to the front porch. Out there, a small picnic table on your porch basks in the rising morning sun. You splay out your food and utensils, sit, and merrily eat, listening to birds chirp and watching bunnies scurry back to their homes. Bucky’s eyes are shining as he watches the sun slowly rise. Neither of you know what time it is, your best guess is 7 or 8, but it doesn’t matter. There’s no missions to be sent out on, no reports to file, and no one ordering you where to be. It’s you, Bucky, and mother nature, and you couldn’t ask for anything more.

“Y/N?” Bucky asks after a while, snapping you out of your content haze. His voice is quiet and soft, as if he intended to not startle you.

“Yes?”

“What should we do today?” You knew he was going to ask this question, for he asks it everyday. Somedays you go fishing or hunting, others you curl up by the fireplace and read to each other, and others you go on hikes, but no matter what the answer turns out to be, it’s the perfect answer.

“I don’t know, my love, is there anything you want to do today?”

“Can we visit Steve today? It’s been a while since…” He begins to attempt to justify, but you don’t need to hear it. Nothing broke your heart more than when Bucky found out Steve went back to the 40’s. You loved Steve, for he was everything to Bucky, and you do your best to be everything for him.

“Of course. Do you want to pick wildflowers to bring him? I want some for a centerpiece in our dining room too.” You offer, knowing that bringing Steve small gifts, like pies or paintings, helps Bucky know he’s doing everything he can for his best pal. Part of it hurts to see it, for it angers you that he would leave you two, that he would leave Bucky helpless and alone in a new world far from the one you knew.

…

It’s a short walk to a hill behind your cabin that’s draped in flowers. Having a lot of time on your hands, you began studying the natural floral of the state. Your personal favorite was the Trientalis borealis, or starflower, for it reminds you of the star on Bucky’s old arm, the one you used as a symbol for hope in your days with hydra. Waking up from cryo, you always searched for that deep red star, so you could know your soldier was there with you. Bucky loves Claytonia caroliniana, the spring beauties, only because he loved putting them in your hair. He claimed that the pale pink complimented your y/h/c strands perfectly.

Bucky picked some trout lilies, their petals a vibrant yellow, and you added some white wood aster to go with them. After adding some other plants you’re yet to learn about, you march back to your cabin and tie off the bouquet with some twine before getting into Bucky’s silver Jeep and heading to the city.

…

Steve’s eyes light up when he sees you and Bucky walk through the door, just like how Bucky’s light looking at the morning sun. Supposedly, there’s not much for America’s Golden Boy at Sunny Acres Nursing Home, so maybe Bucky is his sun.

“Bucky! Y/N!” Steve weakly greets the two of you as you walk in. Bucky is like a child, smiling at his wrinkled best friend, holding the small bouquet behind his back. He happily skips to the right side of the bed Steve is currently in, grinning ear to ear.

“We brought you these,” Bucky says as he presents Steve with the twine bound wildflowers you had picked this morning, “I hope you like them, we picked trout lilies this time to brighten up your room.”

“Geez, punk, don’t go soft on me now,” Steve jokes, “I love them.” With those simple words, Bucky beams. He can’t bear to think about how he was no longer there for Steve during his years on ice, so he tries everything to make it up to him during his final years.

“Jerk.” Bucky mumbles.

“Hey, Buck, y’all catch up. I’ll put the flowers in a vase.” You pitch in, taking the flowers to the small kitchenette on the other side of the room. Replacing the last bouquet you brought him now dried out and wilting, you find a nurse there preparing a meal. “Oh, sorry, I didn’t see you there!” You politely greet her, “My names Y/N.”

“Oh, I know, if it wasn’t for the news stories, it would be from Steve constantly talking about you and Mr. Barnes,” she says, “My name is Helen. I’m Mr. Roger’s primary caregiver.”

“Thank you for all you do for our friend. You said he talks about us a lot?” You inquire.

“Oh, all the time. He’s told me so many stories of the Avengers, and of course of him and Mr. Barnes from before World War II. His stories are incredible!” Her smile is genuine as he continues the soup for Steve, “You know, as much as some of the other heroes try to come and visit him, nothing compares to how happy he is after Bucky visits. It’s really incredible how close they are.”

“Yes… It is.” You can’t help but feel a ting in your stomach when she said that. A small part of you will never forgive Steve for leaving Bucky, but you gotta get over it at some point.

Suddenly, you hear Steve erupt in a wheezy laughter at something Bucky says. Interested, you lean against the frame of the kitchen’s entrance to get a better ear to what they’re saying.

“...and Sam couldn’t stop laughing! It was one of the craziest things Alpine has ever done. Maybe I should bring him here! He’s quite the cuddler.” Bucky finished a story about your beloved cat, and you smile at the two super soldiers talking as if nothing ever happened.

“‘Scuse me,” Helen squeezes past you through the door, soup in hand, “Here’s your lunch, Mr. Rogers.”

“Helen, dear, please call me Steve.” Steve chuckles, “So how is Sam? He was here a couple of weeks ago. Is he still working with the shield?”

“He is. Sometimes he comes over, so I can help him get used to it. I guess it’s not as easy for someone without the serum.” Sam resided in a cabin not too far from yours, and he came over a good amount. If there was anyone who came close to filling the whole Steve left in Bucky, it was The Falcon himself.

“That’s good. The three of you should come up together sometime… with Alpine too!” Steve says, his attention then shifts to you across the room, “How are you, Y/N? Keeping Bucky busy I hope.”

“Oh definitely!” You laugh, striding to his bed, “‘few days ago, we shot a buck early in the morning. My guess was a good 160 pounds. We cooked it and invited Sam over for ribs that night! Had enough leftovers for two days.”

“Didn’t know deer-pot-pie was a thing until she figured out how to make it!” Bucky added, pulling you in by the waist and kissing the top of your forehead. You can’t help but glance down at the portrait of Peggy on his bedside table; right next to a picture of him and Bucky from the war.

The three of you converse for hours, and before you know it, Helen is bringing Steve his dinner. She politely points out that visiting hours are almost over, but that you’re welcome back anytime. You bid farewell to Steve and return to your vehicle for the drive back home.

“Buck?” You timidly say in the car, “Do you ever wish you went back to the 40’s with him?”

He thinks for a while, until he finally speaks, “I don’t think there was anything for me… besides Steve of course. Now, I have you. As long as I have you, I’m happy in any century.”

You bathe once again the happy silence for the rest of the car ride. How did you get so lucky? You did terrible, unimaginable things during your time under Hydra control, so why did the universe let you have someone so magnificent as James Buchanan Barnes?

…

You’re greeted by Alpine as soon as you step over the threshold of your front door. By the time you got back, the sun had begun to set, so you began to start on dinner. Bucky marinated fish you had gotten at a local farmers market the other day, while you washed vegetables from the garden you had out back for a salad.

The two of you sat together at your mahogany dining table, centered with a bouquet of wildflowers similar to the one you gifted Steve. The two of you made small talk, nothing but plans for the next day and compliments to each other on dinner… Until Bucky suddenly says:

“Y/N?” He began, “You know I love you, right?”

“And I love you.”

“You’re everything I’ll ever need, doll, you’re the hope I had in Hydra, and you’re the life I had after it. Ever since I first laid eyes on you at that war camp, I knew you were the gal for me. You’re my world. Never forget that.”

A tear begins to slide down your face, but you didn’t notice it until Bucky wiped it from your cheek, “Thank you, Bucky, I love you so much.”

The sun leaves you and your lover, ending another perfect day in the middle-of-nowhere-New-York.

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mmjjbbaannkkss · 4 years

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2020 January 13-18 Consistent Progressive Overload

"I think Tai Chi is great for everybody. So if you're older it's going to help with bone density like I said it's going up with balance it's going to help people feel stronger. If you are a young athlete, top of your game, you're only going to improve doing Tai Chi, because it develops very minute nuanced movement, sensitive...if you're moving slowly, you're moving really slow, you're gonna go thru all of your fibers, slow twitch all the way to fast twitch, the idea behind Tai Chi is you move slowly, so that over time it'll help you move much faster, it seems paradoxical, but it actually works really well because you learn to relax while doing a movement that creates an engram or a pattern, and when you need to move quickly you've wired or in, you've hard wired it in. So it can develop speed it can develop timing, it can develop sensitivity because you're often working as if you're moving thru water. So this resistance is imagined resistance, is going to allow me to become more sensitive to what's around me. Thru releasing the tension in the body you're gonna have more range of motion, so you don't always have to stretch something out, you can release what's in the way. So you let go of what's in the way and you'll have more range of motion. So it's a process of cultivating energy by releasing what's in the way. So it's not diminutive. You'll let go of the obstacles and become more natural, and when you become more natural you know we have potential to swim miles, climb trees, to jump, we all have rocketing potential, so it's really just, getting out of the way." ~ Matthew Cohen

Week 6 (mixed: heavy neg & fst pos) 6-8/FST

https://youtu.be/UOTcelJ3lpU nobody’s gonna stop you from eating garbage except you

The two week difference, some muscle definition and size; bicep length had disappointed until this rip rep style, the moderate negative/lowering movement reps, only work with full muscle recruitment, agitates deep tissue imho, and lackluster the end of each set, but definitely shows which short-twitch fibers (ex. glutes, strong burst) are undertrained. -- The slow positive reps are, fascia and core-expanding, but only when, slow and connected and concentric, perhaps a trifecta, the release is less than a second, only long for blood in blood out, delivering oxygen and ATP or wtfe to muscles; full range contractions will shrink reps per set make or break; some good sets end with myself intending to go heavier next time, but too heavy both can wringout/break concentric flex, and can tear tendons in the usual places, lack of b/w set rests, lack of knowhow. -- Slow negative reps, can and will shit the bed. -- Slow positive reps, shock and awe, but take the piss when there's at least one more rep. -- Putting them together burns intramuscular fat, providing density (?) but at high energy cost. Get your timing right, breathing pattern, don't hold your breath, and something something live learn decide wait observe, shuffle.

Vinegar and salt will clean a manky whey shaker cup. Slow-positive ab exercises work best, scissor kicks and bicycle crunch.

#31 Heavy Push

Treadmill 5 > Shldr Press *6/10305070 > Lat Raise *6/5,5/ > Hoist *6/6060/45 > BB Bench *6/100*3~ > DB Bench *6/45*3- > Dips *8/ 888- > Pullover Press *8/203040- > Tric Pushdown *8/4050- > Pec Deck *8/557085100- > Twist *8/305070~ > ++Plank 60-, Lplank 55-, Rplank 60- > Treadmill/-

Pushups a good example, negative reps strength, positive reps pump/shape b/c duration and pushing thru a rep to save face;

#32 Lite Pull

Treadmill 8 > L/R pulldown *7/202735*4,50- > DB 1-Arm Row *7/25*3,30*3,35*3 > Wide Lat pulldown *7/50*2,70*2,90*2,110 > Pulldown/over *7/30*3,40*4 > Shrug *7/50*4,100*3 > Row *7/100*7 > Facepulls *7/20253035*4+ > Preacher Curl *7/30505*4,65- > Straight Bar Curl *7/20304050*3,60- > 1-arm curl *7/20*2,30*3,30*2 > Treadmill?/x

Rear delts improving w single lat pulldown and need to stabilize for facepulls

#33 Heavy Legs

Treadmill 5 > LR Horizon *6/10*3 > Horizon *6/305070- > Hack Squat *6/20*3 > Deadlift+Curl *6/203040 > Leg Ext *6/103050- > Leg Curl *6*/305070- > Heel Raise *8/507090 > Side Bends *8/50*3- > Rope Crunch *8/607085-hands > Press Crunch *8/50607080? > Treadmill?

Forgot to add planks to abs day; forgot to go lowfat till after workout, need heat. /// https://www.bodybuilding.com/content/the-myth-of-toning.html “People think to get toned all they need to do is very high reps and a little resistance with moderate to long rests.” ...when it’s somewhere b/w, to paraphrase, you can do weighted cardio, to add, walking will rejuvenate, some are made for mountains.

#34 Lite Push c/lb/x >> FST

Treadmill warmup 5 > Shoulder Press *7/1030*3,50*3 > DB Lat Raise *7/db10*2,LR5,10*3,15*3 > Hoist *7/pl8:25*2,35*2506580- > Flat Smith *7/100*7 > Chest press *7/5070*3,90*3,110? > Crossover *7/2025*5,30 > Incl Fly *7/85*2,100*2,115*2,130~ > Pullover *7/30*3,40*3,50 > Tri-bar tricep *7/50*5,6070- > Abs *7/? > Treadmill?

Pork rice soup, greasy, delicious, didn’t get enuf ‘PWO’ to metabolize it all on the go, and end of session sorta chill, the reverse row machine, just called “abs” was best, 90lbs push, right lat raise, and/or, straight arm pulldown prolly worst; reconsidering vegan AM and buying soy protein isolate powder to add AM intake, store has little to no quinoa; negative-centric reps, are harder, or underdeveloped, and wary of tomorrow’s heavy lowering(s) session, added a meal to counter probably yippie traps, and should roller stretch?

A part of me feels I should do more hoists, or rope center curls that is, and the chest press machine, instead of the smith bench. Neutral-grip dumbbells. Plate press. Oh, the rev-row at 90 was terminal/efficient resistance.

#35 Slow Pull

Treadmill 8 > Lat Pulldown *6/LR353550- > Low Row *6/100*2,105110- > High Row *6/365065? > Chin Up Palms In *6/666- > Knee Facepull *6/253550- > Shrug *8/100*4! > EZ Curl *8/203040? > *Preacher 1-Arm *8/10203040+5065-80-! > *Cbl Curl 1-Arm *8/x > Twist *8/LR507090? > Treadmill?/x

+unsure better up/down; good session;

#36 FST Legs

Treadmill 10 > Body Squat *7/x > Horiz Press *7/50*3,70*3,90- > *Horizon 1-leg *7/10*3,30*4- > *Cable Bends *7/35*7-Lf > Leg Ext *7/10103030505070- > Leg Curl *7/30305050505050 > Heel Raise *7/3050*2,70*2,90*2 > Rev row Crunch *7/90*7 > Rope/Crunch *7/50*2,65*2,80*2,95- > Twist *7/50607080 > Treadmill?

Rope crunch pull only straight down, 5deg of some triceps involved/work. Maybe want heavier hoists, leg presses; abs order Sat is great, breathe deep and stretch core before oblique twist; What level should face pulls be?

#progressive overload #weightlifting #resistance #resistance training

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peterparkers7evilexes · 5 years

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Winterspider - cult of Synanon au [pt1]

THIRD TIME’S THE CHARM AM I RIGHT

This is another idea I had for another ship that got stalled, and anon you actually kickstarted my brain because it works so much better for Winterspider thank you 💕 I know it’s not quite fluffy at the end just yet, but there will be a pt 2!

2.3k words - this is based off of the real life cult of Synanon, look ‘em up if you’re into weird cult shit, it’s horrifying ---------

He got caught trying to steal canned soup. With his baseball cap down low and a faded gray hoodie on, Bucky had thought it was safe. He smuggled two cans of Campbell’s vegetable soup into his hoodie pockets and strolled out the door. The cops were waiting for him beyond the corner, and he never made it back to the foster home where Rebecca was waiting for him.

Juvie was hell. It was an improvement in some ways - he got three hot meals a day, had a lumpy but warm bed, and the detention center even had a little library with some mangled books. But being separated from Rebecca, that was the worst feeling he’d ever experienced in his entire life. Even worse than finding out their parents were dead was the guilt of knowing that he’d failed them, failed Rebecca, left her to fend for herself in a negligent foster home. He tossed and turned in his cot for the first few nights, plagued by thoughts of his little sister hating him, or worse, of her quiet resignation as yet another person failed to protect her like they’d promised.

He didn’t sleep until the third night, when his bunkmate Sam told him, “You ain’t helping her by killing yourself like this.” That and the complete exhaustion lulled Bucky into a dead slumber.

This, Bucky thought, was the worst feeling in the world.

Then a month into his incarceration, the detention center was audited and to no one’s surprise, it was deemed dangerously overcrowded. A lovely farm upstate had volunteered to take on a few juveniles, they said, and Bucky and Sam were ordered onto a school bus that shuttled 50 of them five hours north.

The detention center dropped them off in the middle of a farm, isolated for miles around, wiped their hands of those pesky delinquents, and drove back to the city. “This is a cult,” Sam realized as they were herded through the compound, and Bucky nodded in quiet agreement.

That night, the ‘community leader’, a lean man in his 40s with deceptively warm, brown eyes who introduced himself as Emrys, spread his arms and beamed at his sullen audience. “Your paths are laden with sin. I sense a great deal of violence in your pasts. But you’re home now. You’ll be expected to do your part for your new family, but in return, you’ll find meaning and purpose - a calling that you used to fill with drugs, violence and sex.” He smiled genially at them. “Things are already better for you, I promise.”

Things didn’t get better. The cult, in between preachings of cleansing and forgiveness, emphasized breaking down the ego to rebuild anew. This mostly consisted of ‘group therapy’ where community members were gathered into a room and berated for each of their flaws and ugly histories. Bucky watched as the cult members screamed and called each other drug addicts, whores, junkies, shitty mothers and useless sons. At the end of each session, Emrys swooped in, touching a gentle palm to their foreheads and ‘built them back up’, murmuring about how his beloved children had an opportunity to repent, a second chance at life here. “Today is the first day of the rest of your life,” he said each time, and those inoculated would weep, clutching at Emrys’ jacket sleeves and thank him for believing in them.

As they worked in the gardens, Bucky and Sam exchanged what they saw. “We gotta get out of here,” Sam hissed, his eyes flicking from side to side for the supervisors. “This is straight up Jonestown in the making, you know how that ends, don’t you?”

Bucky bent over, pretending to pull out weeds. “There’s nothing for miles around, where would we even go?”

Sam shrugged, the line of his shoulders tensing as the supervisor strolled closer to their section of the garden. “There’s some talk in my bunk,” he continued in a low voice. “Remember Winston, the ginger from juvie?” Bucky nodded slowly. “He’s talking to others, saying they’re gonna try and make a break for it later this week, while everyone’s at community prayer.”

“That’s a stupid idea,” Bucky said immediately, glaring up at Sam from where he was hunched on the ground. “Doing it while everyone’s gathered in one place? Everyone’s gonna know right away. Plus Winston’s a fucking moron, you really think he’s got a good plan going?”

Huffing out a sigh, Sam kicked at Bucky’s boot. “You got a better plan?”

Bucky pursed his lips and shook his head. “Don’t do it, Sam,” he said quietly. “I’m serious.”

Stretching his arms over his head, Sam looked up at the dusky sky. “I won’t,” he said slowly. “But we can’t stay here forever, Buck. This place is evil, and you know it too.”

That Friday night, things got worse.

During community prayer, Bucky kept scanning the crowd for Winston and his crew, and of course he saw no sign of them. Standing at his podium at the front of the temple, Emrys spread his arms wide, his brown eyes glittering with some smug satisfaction as he preached about young lambs who needed to lose their way before they could be saved. As Emrys gazed over his followers, his dark, omniscient eyes landed briefly on Bucky, and a horrible chill shuddered down his spine.

But it wasn’t until after everyone went to bed that all hell broke loose.

Bucky was lying awake in his bunk, staring at the ceiling and thinking of Rebecca as usual when he heard distant shouting and the barking of dogs. He sat up in his bed, looking to the door of the cabin. “What’s that?” He asked quietly.

Two of his bunkmates were asleep, but another kid was awake as well. He shook his head at Bucky in confusion.

Stepping into his boots, Bucky got up and crept to the door. The yelling came closer, and among the voices he could hear higher voices - mostly teenagers’ screams. Dread sunk cold in his chest, and he looked back at his bunkmate. “I’m gonna see what’s going on.”

Outside, a scene of chaos was unfolding. The would-be runaways were being rounded up back to the compound, their clothes disheveled and muddied and, Bucky realized with a jolt of horror, gashed with blood. A pack of dogs herded them along, snarling and barking at the stragglers. Bucky recognized the community’s sentries hemming in the runaways on all sides, striking at them with bats and flashlights.

“Hey!” called a voice, and Bucky turned, seeing a scrawny brunet boy he vaguely recognized standing outside another cabin and watching. The boy’s call went unnoticed and a sentry struck one of the runaways across the forehead, sending him crumpling to the ground. “Stop it!” cried the scrawny boy, and he ran into the fray.

“Jesus Christ,” Bucky muttered under his breath, breaking into a run as he watched the sentries start on him as well. “Get off, he’s injured!” he shouted, throwing an arm up to shield his face. The scrawny boy ducked under Bucky’s arm and grabbed the unconscious kid under his armpits, starting to drag him away. “Stop, you’re killing them,” he roared as a bat landed hard on his back. Furious, he turned to his attacker and punched him in the face. He didn’t get the chance to do anything else - he heard the heavy thunk of a bat before the pain registered, splitting agony down his skull. As Bucky’s vision swam and went fuzzy, all he could hear was the howling of dogs.

This was the worst feeling in the world.

Sharp, thudding pain pulsed behind Bucky’s eyeballs, and he briefly wished someone would knock him out again so he didn’t have to be awake anymore. “Fuck,” he muttered, and he heard a startled yelp to his right side.

“Oh thank god,” came Sam’s voice, and Bucky cracked his eyes open, wincing at the low lighting. To his surprise though, it wasn’t Sam leaning over him. At first, in his addled state, Bucky felt certain that he had died, and this was an angel peering down at him.

Large brown eyes blinked owlishly at Bucky. It was the scrawny boy from earlier, his soft brown hair haloed in a golden corona from the lamplight. “You’re not Sam,” Bucky said intelligently, and the boy laughed.

“You’re alive,” the boy said with relief, smiling at him. He had a pretty smile, a nice laugh, Bucky noted dimly.

Sam came into view then, crossing his arms and looking down at Bucky quite unimpressed. “You would’ve died if Peter hadn’t saved your ass,” he informed him.

Bucky gingerly touched his skull. “I wouldn’t have had to save your ass in the first place if you hadn’t run out there,” he complained, shooting a rueful look up at Peter.

Peter flushed pink. “They were killing him,” he said meekly.

His little frown made Bucky feel like he’d just kicked a puppy. “I’m just giving you shit,” he said gruffly, sitting up and looking around Sam’s and Peter’s cabin. “It was brave. But stupid.”

“You’re both brave and stupid,” Sam said firmly. “We barely dragged your lifeless body back in here, you know.”

“What happened?” Bucky asked, groaning as pain throbbed dully over his back and shoulders. “What happened to the other kids?”

Peter and Sam exchanged a look. “They got taken to isolation,” Peter said quietly. At Bucky’s questioning look, he grimaced. “You’re newer. You wouldn’t have heard of it. They don’t like people knowing about isolation until they’re… y’know.”

“Brainwashed,” Sam supplied helpfully.

“Yeah.” Peter lowered his eyes, picking up a damp washcloth and soaking it in a little basin. He lifted the rag and held it out, gently patting it across his forehead. Bucky blinked, seeing the rag come away pink with his blood. “They put addicts in there to force them clean. It’s awful.”

“Will they be okay?” Bucky asked, dread unfurling cold in his chest again.

Peter shrugged. “They’ll get out, but they won’t be the same. If you think what happens up here is brainwashing, the stuff that they do in isolation…” He shuddered, dipping the rag back into the basin. “You don’t get out until you’re without a doubt converted.”

“Fuck. We gotta get out of here,” Bucky said, his breath coming in short now. “I gotta get back to the city.”

“Oh, now you agree with me?” Sam crossed his arms over his chest, unsympathetic.

Bucky flipped him off and to his surprise, Peter’s face broke into a wide grin. He was adorable. “I got to thinking,” he started, looking carefully at the door as if to check for eavesdroppers, “Winston’s plan was stupid.”

“Thank you,” Bucky said emphatically, flinching when another spike of pain shot through his head.

“Lie back,” Peter huffed, and he pressed his small hands down on Bucky’s chest, flattening him against the lumpy cot. Bucky let himself be tucked into bed, and he watched with some amusement and disbelief as this skinny, angelic boy bustled about the cabin, unperturbed by his delinquent company as he dumped out the dirty basin water and fetched a clean pillowcase. “Just running will never work. They’ve got hunting dogs and cars--”

“They’ve got cars?” Sam hissed in outrage. “They’ve been makin’ us haul feed two miles in the blazing sun, talking about work ethic and purity of the mind--”

“So we need to get out with their approval,” Peter continued. “They have to willingly let us off campus, either as missionaries or running errands.”

“But that will only get us so far,” Bucky said, raising himself so Peter could tuck a fresh pillow under his head.

Peter’s face lit up in another smile. God, he was pretty. “We don’t have to make it all the way back to the city. We just need to make it out of their jurisdiction.”

“You’ve thought this all through,” Bucky realized. “Why wait until now? Why didn’t you do this before, before Winston and his crew? Security’s going to be way tighter now that there’s already been one escape attempt.”

Peter met his eyes, warm brown and wide with fear. “I was waiting for the right people,” he admitted. “I only get one chance at this. If I get caught, Dad’s gonna kill me. Literally kill me.”

“Dad?” Sam repeated, squinting at him.

With a jolt, Bucky realized where he recognized those dark brown eyes - deceitful and dominating where he’d seen them before, but heartfelt and kind in Peter. “Oh shit,” he breathed.

Peter nodded, his face determined. “Any objections to breaking out with the cult leader’s kid?”

Sam and Bucky looked at one another, nodding their silent agreement. “Well Emrys Junior,” Sam said, clapping Peter on the shoulder. “Looks like you’re our best bet, so we don’t got much of a choice, do we?”

Peter wrinkled his nose in distaste. “Please, his name’s Rick. I wanna get out of this festering hellhole as bad as you two. You know he doesn’t let us watch movies? I just wanna watch King Kong.”

A laugh came unbidden from Bucky’s lips, startling him for a moment with how foreign it felt. He sat back up, ignoring Peter’s concerned face and grabbed the kid’s hand in his. “Peter, you get us out of here and I’ll take you to the movies every day,” he said seriously.

Flushing pink again, Peter looked down at their joined hands, then back up at Bucky. He nodded seriously, his eyes warm and earnest. “I will. We will,” he promised softly.

Things weren’t great. Bucky was still trapped in a cult hundreds of miles from his sister and he had a headache that felt like an axe was wedged between his ears, but this was hope.

Things were better.

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9 Tips for Building Crazy Shoulders

There is no rejecting the influence that an astonishingly well established collection of shoulders has, whatever area of life you are encountering. In the weight area, at the coastline, in the conference room or the bed room, there is definitely no refuting the impact that you leave upon your peers when your deltoids are round and full and also completely created. Sticking out from the pack is a wind if you can place in the hrs as well as initiative needed to fully create them. Have a look at these ideas for pressing your shoulder advancement to the max!

Compounds First off, you need to select the right kind of movements. Isolation and also cord work behaves later, however the initial 12 to 15 collections of your workout should contain heavy iron job. Presses (pinhead, Smith device, weights and also hammer Strength) ought to come first to construct up the thickness. Maintain your embed in the 6 to 10 rep each set variety. Going too heavy, consisting of triples (3 associates each collection) or perhaps songs (1 associate each collection) is a recipe for shoulder damages. If you can not move the weight for 6 repeatings, then you need to most likely peel a little off bench. You're not attempting to damage any type of powerlifting goals - you simply intend to boost the front deltoids with some hefty steel moving!

Isolate with high reps Now that you've hurt the shoulders with the heavy things, it's time to run on down to seclusion work. Much less weight for even more reps is the key for success when constructing up the side deltoids. The cords, dumbbells, equipments and also indeed, also kettlebells, could all enter play now. The goal is to bring the maximum amount of blood feasible into those shoulder muscles. You achieve this using slow-moving repeatings with light weight. Pump, pump, pump away with the goal being to attain the best pump in the background of training. You uncommitted exactly what the poundage reads for the seclusion portion. Just pump it up!

Respect the rotator cuff As always, heat up the shoulder region with sluggish movements using a 5 extra pound plate to heat up the shoulder region. A potter's wheel cuff injury can cost you months in the fitness center or years of progression, and also is generally completely preventable. Constantly begin light on shoulder day, massage your shoulders as you educate, and also stop your workout at the sign of any kind of injury. Level bench press is well-known for causing shoulder injuries, so utilize that motion in a limited basis if you have any type of background of shoulder damage.

Vary the movements Kettlebells, pinheads, cords and also weights each supply a distinctive angle of strategy for the muscle groups you are targeting. None transcends to the other, simply as no leg of a table is much more essential than one more. They all offer unique methods to boost the shoulders for new muscular tissue growth. The most efficient movement is the one you really did not use recently. Keep throwing variations at your shoulders so that they'll constantly be forced to expand. The minute you make things predictable for the muscle mass, growth halts!

Watch the scale climb Muscle weight is actually a whole lot much heavier than fat weight. And also if you want your shoulders to cover off the means you imagine them from muscular tissue magazines, then you are going to have to include some beef to your body. This implies the range will certainly relocate up, up, up! Acquiring a little bit of weight is not only acceptable, but REQUIRED if your goal is to include muscular tissue mass to your shoulders. Plan on a 5 to 15 extra pound modification in your general total muscular tissue mass when all is stated as well as done.

Plenty of sets When it involves lots of muscle teams, you could escape just using a few collections. Abdominal muscles are trained after 8 or 10 minutes. You could enjoy an excellent biceps pump in under 20 minutes. Do you desire outstanding shoulders? Please commit 30 to 40 to 50 mins to them weekly. Slow-moving pumps are the way to go with the ultimate in shoulder growth. You aren't visiting maximum growth results if you're educating them at a minimum.

Their very own training day! Shoulders are usually a muscular tissue team without a residence. They'll wind up stapled to the tail end of a back or chest training day, never ever actually enjoying the focus that features being FIRST on a training day. If your routine and also healing levels enable it, try providing shoulders their personal training day. You may rapidly find you were just providing half-effort by positioning a couple of collections for them somewhere else. Target them when you are fresh as well as at your greatest, and they'll expand at a quicker price because of the strength you reveal them!

Don't neglect traps Your traps are the muscular tissue sheaths that link the neck to the shoulders. You would not know it, from the way some lifters train, completely ignoring them! If you desire optimal shoulder (as well as general body advancement) after that you need to target the traps each week with shoulders. Simply 4 to 8 collections of weights, Smith, pinhead or device shrugs (directly and down) will certainly give your body the stimulation needed for a thick collection of traps.

Patience is key Consistency in time is just what will provide you the shoulders you want. There are no shortcuts of quick solutions. You could run an ECA stack and have abs in a couple of weeks. Building insane vast shoulders will take a lot longer, so you need to be individual. Do not transform up your shoulder training regular too frequently or you'll suppress your results by never ever allowing a program job. Videotape your cause ensure you are putting your training resources in the ideal area!

Crazy shoulders will not get here overnight. For many lifters, they are the muscle mass group that eventually winds up taking the longest to develop. If you are eager to put in the constant and also consistent job, you will certainly be able to develop them to their maximum potential in less compared to 2-3 years. From there, it's nearly continuouslying include portions of inches and also preventing injury. Maintaining those shoulders remarkable is a full-time job. Are you for the challenge?

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Covid-19 & Millennials

The effects that the Covid-19 pandemic is having on Millennials and Generation Z youth, respectively those born between 1984 and 1995 and those born between 1996 and the early 2000s, are mainly related to their mental health. In fact, the pandemic was considered a true collective trauma.

The real possibility of contracting the virus, the uncertainty of the future, job and economic insecurity, lockdown and constant exposure on social media to a multitude of information, which often turns out to be false, have done nothing but instill in young people (but not only) forms of anxiety and worry.

For Millennials and Generation Z, the comparison with previous generations, who considered them irresponsible, lazy, slackers and, in some ways, even responsible for the second wave of contagions, was inevitable. So, in addition to anxiety about the future, there is also the often unfounded criticism of parents, relatives and grandparents.

In addition, for young people the limitations to social relations can result in real psychological damage. What they are experiencing is in fact the age of group outings, of fun, of evenings with friends and of first loves. The pandemic, however, has forced them to stop their sociability and take refuge in technology. If, on the one hand, technology, with its messages and video calls, can be an excellent alternative for continuing to cultivate relationships, on the other hand, abusing the internet and social networks can increase anxiety and lead to depression.

In all this, distance learning for schools and universities is difficult, with questions and exams online, poor connections, hours spent in front of the computer, internships and apprenticeships often suspended or in smartworking mode. Doubts are growing: will I be able to complete the internship? Will I be able to graduate on time? Will I be able to pass the year? These are certainly the questions that are proving to be a source of anxiety for students today.

Teenagers are becoming increasingly lonely and, according to some research, 20-year-olds are even more isolated than retirees. The smartphone can become the only foothold for a social life, swallowing up any chance to meet and hang out with other people. People prefer sexting instead of having sex, ordering food on Just Eat instead of going out to eat, watching Netflix instead of going to the movies. And so gradually people stop meeting new people, because the situations in which it is possible to do so are increasingly reduced. For some, the cell phone and the potential it offers to be connected with a world that would otherwise be unreachable becomes the only reason to live. According to a survey conducted by Telefono Azzurro, 17% of adolescents are unable to disconnect from smartphones and social networks and 1 in 5 wakes up during the night to check them.

The smartphone is not the cause of all evil, but only a tool, as Cesare Guerreschi, psychologist and psychotherapist, founder and president of S.I.I.Pa.C., the Italian Society for Intervention on Compulsive Pathologies, reminds us. The center, which has five locations throughout Italy, deals with the treatment of behavioral addictions and, although it was founded to combat gambling addiction, today in the Bolzano location alone it treats 156 adolescents for nomophobia, the fear of being disconnected and away from the phone.

"With the advent of the new millennium and consequently mass technology, new ways of expressing discomfort have developed," Guerreschi explains. "All addictions, including new addictions, have at their base a unique pattern of behaviors, such as craving, which consists of a very strong and impelling desire for the object of addiction. For drug addicts it can be the spasmodic search for the substance. For the cyber addict it can be the constant need to access the smartphone." For the nomophobic, being away from the cell phone causes anxiety, malaise and uncontrolled anger.

The so-called new addictions, therefore, would be nothing different from those we are used to knowing. In the eighties, drug use was the generational response to a convulsive and incomprehensible time, despite the promises of widespread well-being of Reagan hedonism. The creation of a hallucinogenic para-reality was the most obvious way to escape from the surrounding reality - this also thanks to the contribution of a rebellious imaginary fed by the counterculture, especially music - and the return of heroin and cocaine on the market and the arrival of new synthetic drugs such as crack destroyed an entire generation. Today, smartphone addiction expresses a similar discomfort, although in a less dramatic and obvious way: as during the crack epidemic, the economy is recovering and unemployment rates are stable, but young people continue to create a parallel reality for themselves, in this case a virtual one, refusing to come to terms with the world.

And as in the 1980s, this other reality comes at a high price, even if it is no longer overdoses that kill young people: since 2011, suicide rates among teens have risen alarmingly. At the same time, other risk factors have decreased, such as drug and alcohol abuse and even traffic accidents, but this is not because teens have suddenly become prudent or diligent, but more simply because they don't leave the house to be on their cell phones. Millennials, in short, are safer than teenagers of any other era have ever been. As Jean Twenge, who for years has been conducting studies and research on those born after 1995 (whom she has dubbed iGen, i.e., the generation that can't remember the world without the Internet), acknowledges, parents have also played their part in this, translating an asphyxiating sense of overprotection into the possibility of letting kids do basically whatever they want, as long as they're supervised. Do you want to go to the disco? Okay, I'll take you there and stand in the corner with the other moms. Thus, the myth of adolescent rebellion has also fallen, because the space for insubordination is reduced and the desire for independence languishes in children. And the lack of independence leads to unhappiness.

In spite of the apprehension, according to Dr. Guerreschi, parents are still distant and are not able to talk to their children: "The virtual relationship has replaced the human relationship, even in the most natural relationship that is the one with parents. By now, parents and children communicate through cell phones and via chat, without talking to each other." According to the survey of Telefono Azzurro, four out of five respondents use social networks to communicate daily with their children: the paradoxical thing is that children are constantly told to put the phone away, when it is precisely the adults who abuse it, often using it as the only means of communication with them. Almost all of the young patients at S.I.I.Pa.C. were brought to the center by their parents, and almost all of them are in family therapy.

Twenge also argues that teen segregation occurs not only within families, but more importantly among friends. The progenitor of social, Facebook, is based on friendships that, while virtual, are still friendships. But millennials don't just use Facebook, they also use Instagram, where the number of friends is replaced by the number of followers, a much larger and more indistinct mass. So the desire to be part of a group, of a community, has been replaced by the desire to make a number, that is, not to be left out. This is a very common desire in young people of all ages, but it has become one-way and unrealizable: it is no longer a matter of not being left out of the coolest group at school, but of a social network that has a billion active users.

This phenomenon apparently particularly affects girls, whose depressive symptoms increased by 50% from 2012 to 2015 and who, according to Twenge, committed the highest number of suicides. Females experience more cyberbullying (males still prefer physical assaults) and feel more pressure from beauty standards. When they post a new photo, the research says, they obsessively check the number of likes they've achieved, not so much to have a gratifying confirmation of their appearance, but to not look bad to other users. This causes a strong sense of anxiety, linked to the fact that "you can't" not post anything, because at that point it would mean being totally excluded from social life.

Finally, affecting the mental health of young smartphone addicts is the issue of sleep, which may seem collateral or irrelevant, but is instead a key factor in the onset of depression. 43% of teens sleep less than seven hours per night, a percentage that rises to 51% in the case of 18-year-olds. Looking at a cell phone before bed stimulates the brain and the blue light from the screen inhibits melatonin production, making it harder to fall asleep. Eighty percent of teens admit to using their cell phones during the night, and waking up specifically to check them, a phenomenon called vamping.

Sleepless, depressed and anxious, these millennials are the portrait of a generation that is not at fault. If Deleuze a few decades ago identified schizophrenia as the capitalist disease par excellence, depression is the disease of our time. There is no doubt that mental disorders are not a personal matter, but a collective one. Not only is depression rampant, but it has actually become tolerable: the system, instead of acknowledging its own dysfunctionality, places all the blame on the individual, without considering mental health an issue and a political responsibility.

Adolescents are among the first victims of this system: not only do they work continuously with their cell phones, in the literal sense of the word, consuming advertising, entering data that are processed by digital companies or being at the service of the sharing economy, but they pay a very high price in terms of mental health.

This does not mean that cell phones are to be demonized, on the contrary: as drug addiction teaches us, prohibition serves little or nothing. The solution could instead be to disconnect from the system, and recover human relationships, not only virtual ones. But this won't be possible until we stop holding people accountable for mental illness. And so, kids will only ever be asked "But will you put that cell phone away?", without ever once asking "How are you?".

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The Latest: France sees drop in COVID-19 hospitalizations | National News

PARIS — The number of coronavirus patients hospitalized in France dropped this weekend for this first time since September, after two weeks of new nationwide lockdown measures aimed at slowing surging infections and easing hospital strains.

The number of COVID-19 patients in intensive care also fell for the first time in six weeks, according to figures released Saturday night, though virus patients still occupy 96% of France’s standard ICU beds.

The number of weekly infections per 100,000 people in France has now been falling for 14 straight days, and some doctors say they’re starting to see signs of relief in over-stretched ICUs.

But it remains too early to say whether the one-day drop in hospital numbers means France has hit the peak in this second surge of the pandemic.

France has reported more virus infections than any European country and has had 44,246 virus-related deaths. The government imposed a nationwide partial lockdown starting Oct. 30 as the second surge hit and could start easing the measures Dec. 1 if the number of virus patients in hospitals shows consistent decline.

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HERE’S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE VIRUS OUTBREAK:

— Second round of lockdowns brings misery for Europe’s Michelin-rated chefs

— President-elect Joe Biden faces tough choice of whether to back virus lockdowns

— Mexico reaches 1 million virus cases, nears 100,000 deaths

— French doctors use their experience t o improve treatments for COVID-19 patients

— San Diego restaurants, gyms sue for right to operate indoors despite pandemic

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Follow AP’s coverage at https://apnews.com/hub/coronavirus-pandemic and https://apnews.com/UnderstandingtheOutbreak

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HERE’S WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING:

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Authorities in Sri Lanka say about 400 inmates from the country’s highly-congested prisons have tested positive for COVID-19 as infected cases are surging in the capital and its suburbs.

Twelve of the 400 are prison officers while the rest are inmates. The cases are detected from five prisons in different parts of the country.

Sri Lankan prisons are highly congested with more than 26,000 inmates crowded in facilities designed to hold about 10,000.

Sri Lanka has seen a fresh outbreak of the disease since last month when two clusters — one centered on a garment factory and other on the fish market — emerged in Colombo and its suburbs. Confirmed cases from just those two clusters have grown by Sunday to 13,079 people.

Sri Lanka’s total number of positive cases reached 16,582 on Sunday with 53 fatalities.

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ANTWERP, Belgium — Many a three-star Michelin meal has been put into a takeout box and sent out on Deliveroo scooters, as renowned chefs in Belgium and elsewhere try to scrape through a second pandemic lockdown that is likely to threaten even the lucrative Christmas season.

Sergio Herman, who has run three-star, two-star and many other establishments that have wowed the Michelin powers and the most refined palates around the world, doesn’t really see any positives to come out of working amid the pandemic.

“Sometimes you feel that whatever you built up over the years is slipping like sand through your fingers. It gives you this kind of fear,” he told The Associated Press.

Across much of Europe, exclusive restaurants have lost the precious appeal of the luxury dining experience — from eating several inventive courses, to basking in sommelier tastings, to savoring the after-dinner sweet and having that little extra chat with the chef.

“All that cannot just be replaced by a box and a plastic tray. That is just impossible,” Herman said amid the whirl of his new restaurant, Le Pristine, in the Belgian port of Antwerp.

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NEW DELHI — India has reported 41,100 new cases of coronavirus in the past 24 hours, taking the country’s overall tally since the pandemic began to 8.79 million.

The Health Ministry on Sunday also reported 447 deaths in the same period, driving total fatalities to 129,635.

India is second in the world in total reported cases behind the U.S., but daily infections have been on the decline since the middle of September. There has been, however, a resurgence of infections in New Delhi, which has seen a renewed surge in recent weeks, recording more new cases than any other Indian state.

On Sunday, New Delhi registered 7,340 new coronavirus cases, including 96 deaths.

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SEATTLE — Washington Gov. Jay Inslee has scheduled a news conference for Sunday morning as COVID-19 case numbers soar throughout the Pacific Northwest where he will reportedly detail new restrictions.

Inslee’s office said he would discuss actions to combat the crisis but offered no details. The Seattle Times reports that among Inslee’s announcements will be a ban on indoor service at restaurants and bars and significantly reduced capacity at grocery stores and retail shops.

The newspaper cited industry officials briefed by Inslee’s staff. The Democratic governor will also prohibit all indoor social gatherings. And Inslee will reportedly limit grocery stores and retailers to 25% occupancy.

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HARTFORD, Conn. — Connecticut’s two U.S. senators were self-isolating Saturday after a member of Democratic Gov. Ned Lamont’s staff tested positive for COVID-19.

Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy each tweeted Saturday that they had not had close contact with the staffer but were taking the step out of an abundance of caution.

Lamont’s chief spokesperson, Max Reiss, identified himself as the senior staff member who had tested positive in a release posted to Twitter on Friday. Reiss wrote he wasn’t sure how or where he had contracted the virus.

Murphy tweeted Saturday that he had “attended an event yesterday with the Governor but was not in close contact with the staff member who tested positive. Out of an abundance of caution, though, I am isolating until I get tested and consult with the Office of Attending Physician Monday morning.”

Blumenthal tweeted Saturday afternoon that he had “just returned from being tested myself and am currently self-isolating.”

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CARSON CITY, Nev. — Nevada has reported a record number of new confirmed cases of the coronavirus for the second day in a row amid warnings from Gov. Steve Sisolak that the state is at a “critical juncture.”

Sisolak implored residents to stay home and do what they can to protect themselves a day after he announced he had tested positive for COVID-19. Sisolak told reporters on Friday that he wasn’t feeling any symptoms and would enter a quarantine.

Nevada reported 2,269 new cases and 15 additional deaths on Saturday, topping the record of 1,857 new cases set Friday.

Sisolak warned Nevadans earlier in the week that if the state fails to slow the spread of the virus within two weeks, he will be forced to reimplement stricter measures.

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NEW YORK — Students, parents and teachers are continuing to anxiously watch New York City’s coronavirus test results. The latest figures Saturday fell under the city’s threshold for shutting down school buildings, but the mayor warned that the city was at a “crucial” point in fighting the virus’ resurgence.

Mayor Bill de Blasio cautioned parents and teachers Friday to plan for a potential school shutdown as soon as Monday, saying the city could cross its deciding line — 3% of coronavirus tests citywide coming back positive over a seven-day period — over the weekend.

The rate stayed short of that on Saturday, at 2.47%, he said.

“But that could change,” the Democratic mayor tweeted, warning that the city was facing “a critical weekend” in combating the pandemic.

New York City has the United States’ largest public school system, with more than 1 million students. It became one of few big cities to reopen classrooms this fall after the pandemic forced schools online in the spring, though families had the option of continuing all-remote learning this fall.

About 280,000 students have attended in person, far fewer than the city originally expected.

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ATHENS, Greece — Deaths from the coronavirus have topped 1,000 in Greece, and authorities say that over half occurred since Oct. 18.

The Greek government has decided to shut down elementary schools, kindergartens and day care centers for two weeks starting Monday. Children will be schooled at home, as is already happening with high school and university students.

Authorities have stepped up enforcement of a 9 p.m. – 5 a.m. curfew, including by making arrests.

Two foreign exchange students who hosted an after-hours party at their apartment in the northern city of Thessaloniki were arrested Friday and fined 3,000 euros ($3,550) each on the spot. The 24-year-old Palestinian man and 21-year-old woman from France received also suspended prison sentences of 2 years and two months on Saturday.

Their 15 party guests, all university students from western Europe, were fined 300 euros ($355) each but not arrested.

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BALTIMORE — The number of people testing positive for the coronavirus has soared to a new daily high in the United States.

Data from Johns Hopkins University indicates the number of confirmed cases reached 184,514 on Friday, as the number of people infected continues to surge.

The Johns Hopkins data shows the seven-day rolling average for virus-related deaths reported daily in the U.S. rose over the past two weeks from about 828 on Oct. 30 to 1,047 on Friday, an increase of about 26%

The seven-day rolling positivity rate also rose over the past two weeks from 6.4 to 9.6, an increase of about 50%, even as the number of tests performed has grown.

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18 UAE 5-star hotel staycation deals to take advantage of right now

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Dubai: It’s no secret that we’re in a lull in the intervening time. And typically a change in self-isolation surroundings is the factor you want to get you out of this funk. And whereas we proceed to encourage folks to keep residence, we nonetheless purpose to present resourceful content material in case residents need to change up their self-isolation location.

All accommodations and resorts listed right here must be following bodily distancing requirements by guaranteeing that friends are standing not less than 2 metres away from one another all through all areas of the property.

Hand sanitiser dispensers must be positioned all through the resort at visitor and colleague entrances in addition to high-contact areas equivalent to driveways, reception areas, hotel foyer, restaurant entrances, assembly and conference areas, elevator landings, swimming pools and salons.

*Please observe that these charges are topic to change, so contact hotel instantly

Listed below are some hotel deals which you can get all throughout the UAE

Dubai

At this time limit swimming pools and seashores in Dubai aren’t accessible to friends, until you might have a non-public in-villa pool

5 Jumeirah Village

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This hotel has been providing fairly nice deals over the past two months. You may e-book a superior room with a balcony for actually Dh179.10 an evening. This gained’t embrace any extras like F&B deals. Or you may decide for a similar room at Dh336.13 and the whole quantity is redeemable in opposition to F&B together with their eating places in addition to room service. In case you needed a two bed room sky villa with a non-public pool, this can value you Dh1,260 with none F&B affords.

Value: Ranging from Dh179.10 per night time

Handle Downtown Dubai

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The Handle is providing a particular Ramadan staycation, the place friends can take pleasure in 40 per cent off the most effective obtainable fee. It comes with a alternative of breakfast or iftar in addition to a Dh100 Emaar Present Card per particular person, per night time (restricted to 2 folks solely; max Dh200 per night time) – will also be redeemed at eating places within the hotel. This provide is accessible now and is legitimate till Might 23 2020.

The Handle Downtown Dubai can also be providing a Household Room Staycation provide, the place households can e-book a room and get the second at 50 per cent off. They’re assured to be interconnecting rooms. This provide accommodates up to three adults and a pair of kids and is legitimate from June 1 till September 30.

Value: Ranging from Dh773 per night time together with breakfast/iftar and Dh100 present card per particular person.

Atlantis the Palm

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Atlantis is providing a particular ‘UAE Resident Offer’ which incorporates breakfast and entry to free Wi-Fi on the hotel.

Value: Dh649 for 2 together with breakfast

Palazzo Versace Dubai

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Palazzo Versace Dubai has lately launched its personal e-gift platform, the place consumers can select to ‘gift an experience’ whether or not as a deal with for themselves or as a gesture to a liked one. To launch the platform, Palazzo Versace Dubai has run an introductory provide the place friends should purchase a keep at a reduced fee of Dh499, which is a reasonably superb deal for often fairly an costly hotel.

Value: Ranging from Dh499 per night time

Ajman

Swimming pools and seashores in Ajman are presently accessible to friends.

Radisson Blu

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The Radisson Blu in Ajman is providing an excellent Ramadan Expertise package deal which incorporates breakfast in Larder Restaurant or suhoor within the room, in addition to iftar or dinner in Larder Restaurant. The deal additionally offers gusts entry to the pool and fitness center, free web and rewards factors.

Value: Ranging from Dh350 per night time

One other deal by the Radisson Blue Ajman is their Household Expertise deal, which incorporates two connecting rooms, a Superior Room King and Twin. Breakfast at Larder Restaurant or suhoor within the room, pool and fitness center entry, free web and rewards factors for Dh500.

Value: Ranging from Dh500 for each rooms per night time

Fairmont Ajman

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The Fairmont in Ajman has a nightly fee of Dh399.20 per night time. Get pleasure from entry to the pool and seashore in addition to their choice of eating places.

Ajman Saray, a Luxurious Assortment Resort

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Boasting a location close to the Ajman Museum, the Ajman Saray resort is situated at a quiet beachfront space. For the time being, their packages contain a one-night keep of their Deluxe Sea View Room for Dh323 an evening. Take advantage of a household provide at Dh357 per room, per night time together with breakfast and children beneath 12 can dine without cost.

Value: Ranging from Dh323 an evening

Ras Al Khaimah

Swimming pools and seashores in Ras Al Khaimah accommodations are accessible to friends.

Cove Rotana

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That is one of the favourites in RAK. A quiet and beautiful hotel, additionally providing non-public swimming pools for many who need them. An evening keep there in a basic room will set you again Dh462, whereas the non-public villa prices Dh1,242 together with breakfast.

Value: Ranging from Dh462 per night time

DoubleTree by Hilton Resort & Spa Marjan Island

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Spend the day at this large resort for a steal. The night time at this hotel will value you Dh399 per room. If you would like to add breakfast to this staycation it should set you again Dh479 per night time per room. Keep in a spacious room and luxuriate in watching TV on the 42-inch display and take within the view out of your non-public balcony.

Value: Beginning at Dh399 per night time

Waldorf Astoria Ras Al Khaimah

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This stunning hotel is often a deal with and a splurge, however in the intervening time, should you e-book by way of dnata Journey, you may take pleasure in an evening keep together with breakfast and dinner for Dh656.

Value: Dh656 per night time should you e-book by way of dnata Journey

Fujairah

Swimming pools and seashores in Fujairah are accessible to friends from Might 7 onwards

Le Meridien Al Aqah

The household pleasant hotel on the coast of Fujairah is providing a cool household deal which you can take advantage of right now. E book your keep at Le Meridien Al Aqah and luxuriate in limitless household enjoyable with charges ranging from Dh498 per room on double occupancy. The deal consists of complimentary breakfast and a further 20 per cent off on F&B, Spa or any actions within the hotel.

Value: Ranging from Dh498 per night time

Fairmont Fujairah

Get pleasure from a keep at Fairmont Fujairah from Dh479 per room for an evening. Fujairah are reopening their seashores on Might 7, so you may take pleasure in entry to swimming pools and seashores there.

Value: Ranging from Dh479 per night time

Fujairah Rotana Resort & Spa

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The East Coast hotel situated simply by the Hajjar Mountains have lately redesigned and renovated their Deluxe, Premium Rooms and Suites, simply in time for the seashores opening up in Fujairah. Rotana’s staycation provide includes a minimal keep of two nights and you’ll then profit from 50 per cent off on room charges. This provide is till October 4, 2020

Value: Dh495 per night time should you keep for a minimal of 2 nights

Sharjah

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Sheraton Sharjah Seashore Resort

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Keep at this 5 star resort for a steal. An evening of their Deluxe room is priced at Dh275. An effective way to take pleasure in a luxurious social isolation for much less. If you would like to add an open buffet breakfast to the package deal, you’ll be charged Dh325 per night time.

Value: Ranging from Dh275 per night time

The Chedi Al Bait

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The Chedi Al Bait, Sharjah, has been named one of probably the most outstanding new accommodations on this planet. And so they have launched their residence away from residence package deal, which features a three-course breakfast served within the room, three-course set lunch and dinner menus, three items of laundry (excluding dry cleansing), a minibar stocked with contemporary juices, complimentary Wi-Fi entry within the suite, sweet-of-the-day and mineral water, 24-hour medical help with periodic evaluation of vitals, if required, a COVID-19 check is accessible at extra value. In case you are fasting then the meals may be changed with a three-course suhoor served within the suite in addition to a three-course iftar menu. This package deal is on the pricier aspect for 2 folks at Dh1,300, nevertheless should you simply need to go to the hotel for a daily in a single day keep, it should cos you Dh700 per night time for 2 folks.

Value: Ranging from Dh700 per night time

Abu Dhabi

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Dusit Thani Abu Dhabi

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Dusit Thani in Abu Dhabi has usually at all times been an reasonably priced 5 star hotel. You may presently e-book an in a single day keep there for Dh329 an evening. An additional Dh77 at Dh406 per night time will get you breakfast for 2.

Value: Ranging from Dh329 per night time

Anantara Japanese Mangroves Abu Dhabi

Get pleasure from 30 per cent off on meals and beverage, a complimentary room improve to the following room class and late check-out till 4pm whenever you e-book your staycation at Anantara. Moreover UAE & GCC residents can take advantage of an unique 25 per cent low cost when reserving luxurious rooms and suites. The hotel has elevated their providing on their room dine-in menu for these trying to self-isolate of their hotel rooms.

Value: Ranging from Dh450 per night time

4 Seasons Hotel Abu Dhabi Al Maryah Island

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This stunning 5 star hotel presently has fairly low charges in the intervening time. You may take advantage of their staycation provide, which supplies you 20 per cent off room charges in case your keep is longer than one night time. On this case the usual room will value you Dh476 per night time. In case you select to simply keep one night time, charges will begin at Dh575 per night time. Which is fairly nice for the 4 Seasons.

Value: Ranging from Dh476 per night time should you e-book for two nights or Dh575 per night time

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A Closer Look at the Chinese Hospitals Built to Control the COVID-19 Pandemic

© Sina Weibo Share Share Facebook Twitter Pinterest Whatsapp Mail Or https://www.archdaily.com/937579/a-closer-look-at-the-chinese-hospitals-built-to-control-the-covid-19-pandemic While an overwhelming majority of the world is still fighting against COVID-19, the economic and social situation in China has shown an beginning signs of return to a new normal way of life in the recent weeks. In another sign of good news, the Chinese government recently announced announced that the two hospitals in Wuhan that were built from ground up within 10 days would close on April 15th and the remaining 30 patients will be transferred to other hospitals in Wuhan to receive further treatment. Other regions of China have followed similar steps, also announcing the closure of temporary hospitals, showing a positive sign that the COVID-19 pandemic is finally being defeated where it first began. We've compiled a list with the temporary hospitals constructed in the first two months of 2020, designed specifically to treat patients with COVID-19 symptoms. In total, China constructed more than 30 temporary hospitals built across the country. The speed at which these medical facilities were built was achieved through the hard work of tens of thousands of people working around the clock.

Wuhan

Leishenshan Hospital / Central-South Architectural Design Institute Leishenshan Hospital is located near the Huangjia Lake, Jiangxia District, Wuhan. It was originally planned to add 1,500 beds and accommodate 2,000 medical staff in two separate buildings upon 75,000 square meters. Construction began on January 26, the first isolation ward was completed on February 1, and the hospital accepted the first patients and staff only one week later.

Huoshenshan Hospital / CITIC General Institute of Architectural Design and Research The construction of Wuhan Caidian Huoshenshan Hospital started on January 23, and was coordinated by four contractor groups- China Construction Third Engineering Bureau, Wuhan Construction Engineering, Wuhan Municipal Construction Group, and Hanyang Municipal Construction Group. The hospital was quickly built because of its modular structure which provided a housing-like form for each unit. With a site area of 34,000 square meters,this hospital t can accommodate up to 1,000 patients. Huoshenshan Hospital was put into operation on February 2 and patients were officially admitted the following day

Temporary Hospitals / Hanyang Municipal Design Institute On February 3, Wuhan began constructing three temporary hospitals in Wuhan Hongshan Stadium, Wuhan Salon, and Wuhan International Convention and Exhibition Center. The following day, the city received positive news, that the surrounding areas would build eight additional temporary hospitals to treat COVID-19 patients. In total, these 11 temporary hospitals were used to treat patients who were battling pneumonia as a result of infected by Coronavirus in different areas of Wuhan.

© Changjiang Daily The People's Liberation Army (PLA) mobile medical system, consists of multiple temporary hospitals that are widely used in various emergency treatments and times of national crisis. The temporary hospital is generally composed of medical functional units, ward units, and technical support units. These wards are modular sanitary units that house many functions including emergency treatment, surgical treatment, and clinical testing. According to government's standard, a temporary hospital needs be separated by partitions, each separate zone contains 50 beds, with one nurse station for every 250 beds. The doctor-patient workflow is completely independent, and the sewage from the site is treated separately.

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Nanjing

Nanjing Public Health Medical Center Contingency Project / Southeast University Architectural Design and Research Institute This temporary hospital contains two-rows of mobile dwellings with a total 288 contingency isolated wards and one healthcare workers building. The project also includes infrastructure such as roads, water supply and drainage, street lighting, and public infrastructure, which help to receive and treat the COVID-19 patients. The project design process only took 24 hours for schematic design and three days for the construction drawings. The medical center was been completed within 14 days, a true representation of the efficiency that the city of Nanjing is known for.

Xi’an

Xi’an Public Health Medical Center Project / China Northwest Architecture Design and research Institute Co. LTD The Xi’an Public Health Medical Center's nine wards and one ICU department began accepting patients on February 3rd. Each treatment area is divided into wards, with a variety of medical departments providing efficient staffing for different departments including practitioners, nurses, examination, radiology, pharmacy, laboratory, etc. The three buildings of this medical center were designed and constructed within 20 days.

Zhengzhou

Zhengzhou Qiboshan Hospital / China Construction Seventh Engineering Division. CORP. LTD As the designated hospital for treatment of COVID-19 pneumonia in Zhengzhou, the Zhengzhou version of “Xiao Tang Shan” was built in 10 days- a startling 5 days ahead of schedule. The total gross floor area is 26,210 square meters, including the renovation of an over 7,000 square meter existing outpatient building, and the construction of an 11,65 square meter new inpatient ward that holds 800 beds.

Weihai

Weihai Chest Hospital Expansion Project After 15 days of construction, Weihai Chest Hospital was completed and put into use on February 12th, covering a total area of about 43,500㎡ (60 acres). The expansion project plans to accommodate 300 patients and is equipped with an inspection and quarantine units, a treatment ward, a co-office area, a general ward, a rest area for medical staff, and a catering facility.

Fuqing

The newly-built infected hospital area The newly-built infected hospital area in city of Fuqing sits adjacent to the main hospital area of the City Hospital of Fuqing. The entire area, split into two phases, is around 8,100 square meters and contains 200 beds for patients. Among them, the first phase of the project covers an area of 3,000 square meters, including a 1,300-square-meter outpatient building and a 1,700-square-meter isolation area, which provides an additional 45 beds. The second phase of the project is under rapid construction, which, upon completion, could provide additional 155 beds and become the largest-scale infectious disease ward in the area.

Shenzhen

The Third People’s Hospital of Shenzhen Temporary Stay-in Observation Ward As the Third People’s Hospital of Shenzhen second stage project is under intensive construction, the first temporary stay-in observation ward specially for treatment of patients infected with COVID-19 in Shenzhen will soon be completed. Constructed with the idea to plan ahead before the crisis overwhelmed the healthcare system, the ward started construction on January 25th, and the first 30 beds had been put into use on February 7th. When the second stage construction of the hospital is finished, an additional 1,000 beds will be available. The overall capacity of the Third People’s Hospital of Shenzhen will be 2,600 beds, more than the total number of beds provided by Wuhan Leishenshan and Huoshenshan Hospital combined. Today, the total number of confirmed cases in Shenzhen reported are 419 cases, but The Third People’s Hospital of Shenzhen is well prepared for all patients, in the case of a virus resurgence.

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30 Modern Horror Movies For Your Spooking Pleasure (Updated for 2018)

Dearest Friends and Fellow Rainbow Seekers,

as you may know, I am rather obsessed with horror movies. Over my lifetime, I have submitted myself to thousands of hours of horror cinema, but such extended exposure has come at a cost. It is true that I sometimes lose sleep over the fear of grinning demons sitting at the foot of my bed, or perhaps finding the bloated corpse of a drowned girl crying in my closet. But dark thoughts, as such, are typical to those who willfully endure the macabre. As a horror fan, nothing is more terrifying—or more gratifying—than clammering your way through the black swamp of terrible movies in search of the diamonds in the rough.

I have done the work for you, dear reader. I have hunted through hundreds of faux haunts and I have identified those that are genuine. And if you’re willing, I would be honored to serve as your guide through this realm of dark cinema. A concise list lies below, consisting both of films widely recognized, and lesser-known cult classics. They are united only by their modernity and their overall awesomeness. This is a list of films to be watched by all fans of cinema. So I urge you, dear reader, to call your significant other (or the one you desire to be your significant other). Then, put on your favorite onesie, and get ready for spookiness! Because the night is dark and full of terror—and you deserve to be spooked by those films most worthy of spooking!

The Babadook - 2014 [TRAILER]

This might be my favorite on the entire list, so I'm gonna stick it right here at the top. But really, if there's one movie on this list that you should watch, it's the Babadook. Sure, you might have to suspend your disbelief on a few occasions, but it's totally worth it. It seems so rare that horror movies transcend their linear plots into something deeper, but the Babadook succeeds to descend to wonderfully cerebral depths. Without spoiling too much, the plot centers around a mother, grieving the loss of her husband, and her ADHD trouble-child, who come across a creepy kids’ book. An emotional and psychological haunting ensues that dares viewers to venture into the realms of depression and mania.

Let the Right One In - 2008 [TRAILER]

I've been bored of Vampires since Harry Potter, but this little charmer bit me right in the jugular. The plot centers around a boy who befriends a young female vampire—and yes, for you vampire loving people out there, it does get kind of romancy (in that innocent kid way). Apart from the totally on-point acting, the film maintains an oddly delicate balance of emotional tenderness and intimacy to total blood-chugging brutality. It is easily the best vampire movie to date, and if Swedish subs aren't your thing, there's an American version, Let Me In, that is equally as good.

It Follows - 2015 [TRAILER]

With one of the most original plots I've ever experienced in a horror movie, It Follows is being touted as one of the best movies of 2015. It's a film best left to experience without outside influence, but I can say that this film will be well enjoyed by those who appreciate speculation, interpretation, and subplots involving the exchange of STDs. It follows tread along a straight forward plot, but contains a wonderful amount of depth to sift through afterward. The film also has top-notch acting and is beautifully shot (much of it shot in Detroit). Make sure you see it with a few friends so you can talk about it afterward!

The Orphanage - 2007 [TRAILER]

I love me a sad, creepy ghost story, and there's something even better about them when they involve dead children. Like many of the films on my list, The Orphanage, produced by Guillermo Del Toro, has just that. But in all seriousness, this film has a wonderfully emotional story that’s rarely found in the horror genre. It's a well-known classic amid fans of the horror genre, a film that masterfully builds writhing tension to evoke its scares.

Lake Mungo - 2008 [TRAILER]

Lake Mungo offers a long-winded but mature examination of loss and grief. Its presentation is almost dreamlike, with a plot that focuses on the horrors experienced by a family after the drowning of their daughter. Lake Mungo exceeds as a film in the way that it relentlessly builds upon a wrenching sense of dread. Made with a tiny budget, but supported by solid acting, this film is surprisingly believable and captures the vulnerability, isolation, and confusion experienced after the unexpected death of a loved one. Simply put, this movie is completely terrifying, yet contains almost no cheap scares. It's a 100% unrelenting, slow-roast dread that doesn't let up until well after the credits.

REC - 2007 [TRAILER]

The original REC is a deliberately fast-paced film that sandwiches its doomed characters between compounding layers of dread, resulting in of one of the best modern horror films in years. The pseudo-zombie plot derails right from the get-go, and later smashes into the supernatural for a terrifying climax. But the disgusting monster at the end? That takes the cake for one of nastiest creepers ever to make it into cinema.

The Curse (Noroi) - 2005 [TRAILER]

There is a goldmine of Eastern horror out there, and the Curse represents the genre as one of the best. It's a Japanese, low budget, faux documentary, that—amid scenes of complete ridiculousness—manages to be completely and dreadfully effective. Noroi presents an engrossing, slow-burn mystery that carefully leaks the details of an ancient demon-curse. If you're interested in venturing into classic eastern horror, definitely check this one out.

Kill List - 2011 [TRAILER]

In some ways, Kill List tries to be a deep character study (and I'd say for the first 45 minutes, this might hold true), but then it’s quickly upstaged by an eerie crime drama, which later transforms into a totally effed cult-terror-gore-fest. Somehow, it all seems to work together, leaving you with a disturbing, yet surprisingly thought-provoking mess to discuss with your friends. This is a film to be viewed with others, and I highly recommend it for those who love cults, mysteries, and gore.

28 Days Later - 2002 [TRAILER]

While I wanted to avoid the obvious choices for this list, I couldn't leave out 28 Days Later, because...Well, it's just too good to ignore. With fast zombies, sympathetic characters, and incredible production, Danny Boyle has created one of the best pieces of apocalyptic horror ever made. You’ve probably already seen it, so you might as well see it again.

The Descent - 2005 [TRAILER]

The Descent stars six women, all part of an extreme adventure club, who decide to explore the creepiest cave in the entire world. In this cave, of course, dwell terrible, fanged, amphibious slime creatures who have an affinity for jump scares and standing directly behind the backs of the characters...but the real horror of this movie is the cave. The movie absolutely excels in conveying intense desperation and suffocating claustrophobia. Despite solid reviews, I had low hopes for this movie, but ended up really enjoying it. Highly recommended.

Cabin in the Woods - 2012 [TRAILER]

Horror fans tout Cabin in the Woods as a modern classic. Is it particularly scary? No. But it does provide an ample serving of self-aware humor and cliche-bending twists. I don't care much for self-aware horror movies, but Cabin in the Woods does it right, offering one of the best works of pop culture entertainment that the horror genre has ever seen.

Suicide Club - 2002 [TRAILER]

With an opening scene of 50+ Japanese schoolgirls jumping in front of a train, I can confidently say that Suicide Club is one of the most hardcore horror movies of all time. The movie follows a wave of unexplained suicides and slowly pieces together a rather nebulous mystery. Answers, however, are few and far between, and I am still not sure if I actually like this movie. But for anyone who is looking for something a little bit darker, this is for you.

Battle Royale - 2000 [TRAILER]

Before the Hunger Games, there was Battle Royale, which happens to be set in a similar dystopian universe, wrought with unemployment, crime, and malcontent. Each year, a randomly selected 9th grade class of Japanese, khaki-donning schoolchildren are outfitted with exploding shock collars and given an assortment of weapons. They are then forced to hunt each other down until there is only one left. Long story short, it's the hunger games with an R rating, and if I am not mistaken, this controversial child-massacre-gore fest was banned for a time. But for real, this movie rules, topping its big-budget, modern successor with tons of style, as well as a healthy dose of dark, humorous cynicism. If you felt that the Hunger Games didn’t have enough teen gore, then this movie is for you.

The Devil’s Backbone - 2001 [TRAILER]

A haunting allegory of the Spanish Civil War, Guillermo Del Toro's film presents a chilling school house ghost story that stands as a masterfully produced piece of cinema. It's heavily atmospheric, emotionally fraught, and above all else, spooky. This fable is one of Del Toro's best and is a must watch on this list.

Creep - 2015 [TRAILER]

Laced in dry humor, Creep is another slow burner that masterfully builds upon a foundation of discomfort and creeping uneasiness that relies little on jump scares (although, it does not forgo them). The two fold script prompts some of the best acting on this list - and rumors state that much of it was improvised. Creep is proof that you don't need to have a big budget with CGI jump scares to make a compelling horror movie. Did I mention that it's available for Netflix streaming, too?

Gerald's Game (89% RT) [TRAILER]

The plot begins with a dude named Gerald, who, with his wife, depart to an ocean side cabin for a sexy-time retreat. Except their sexy time, in typical Stephen King fashion, goes horribly wrong. Next thing you know, Gerald is being eaten by a dog and she's handcuffed to the bed and then the boogieman starts to come out at night. Hopefully I didn't just ruin the movie for you, but for real, it gets really good - and the boogieman is one of the best horror spooks I've seen in a long time. The wife, Carla Gugino, gives nothing short of a stellar performance, too.

The Witch (91% RT) [TRAILER]

The Witch centers itself around a (Puritan?) family who is banished to the outskirts of the New England wilderness in the 1600s (where an ancient and foreboding evil lurks). Shortly after, the crops die, people get possessed, someone's nipple is eaten by a demon crow, and Satan appears as the family goat, named "Black Philip." Despite what I just said, the Witch bares little, but what it does reveal is absolutely brutal. But the real horror is not what hides in the woods, but rather the evil that makes its way inside of the characters. Overall, it's an exceptionally well made period piece that will marinade you in dread... and thus the Witch is one of my favorite horror movies of all time.

Under the Shadow (99%) [TRAILER]

Under the Shadow is an art house masterpiece that serves as one of the greatest horror movies ever made, yet it is mostly unknown outside of horror circles. The movie is about an Iranian mother and daughter, living in a bombed out Tehran in the middle of the Iran-Iraq war. Her Husband, a doctor, is drafted to serve at the war front and they are left behind when an undetonated missile comes crashing into their apartment building (followed by a superstitious neighbor spouting about how the missile brought with it a middle eastern demon, or Djinn). Things start to get creepy when random items being to go missing, the daughter's behavior becomes increasingly erratic, and the Mother is plagued by horrible nightmares. But most unnerving of all is the isolation and desperation of a mother and daughter trapped in urban chaos.

IT (86% RT) [TRAILER]

An ancient, child devouring evil lurks under the town of Derry, Maine, who manifests itself physically as the apex of one's fears. Over the centuries, It has developed a taste for children (whose fears are easier to conceptualize, apparently), and thus It's preferred manifestation is that of a google-eyed, drooling, and mildly pedaphilic clown named Pennywise. Without drenching this write-up with my slobbering love for this movie, please know that the director and actors absolutely nailed it. The book presents 1200+ pages of historical world building with time-jumping plot lines - and the movie does an amazing job portraying the phantasmagoric and fantastical, yet demon-beleaguered town of Derry. Director, Andres Muschietti and co. deserve every penny of the 300 million dollars it has grossed since release.

It Comes at Night (89% RT) [TRAILER]

It Comes at Night is a psychological slow-burner, relying on the fears of the unknown, of mistrust, and of post-apocalyptic desperation. The plot revolves around the plight of a family, isolated and hidden, in their forest home as an undefined and unnatural blight ravages the outside world. One day, another destitute family comes stumbling into their home, who are cautiously taken in. Paranoia and mistrust slowly begin to boil between the two families, awakening an evil greater than the zombie-esque disease they seek to hide from. It's an unnervingly fantastic film that will stick with you long after viewing.

Get Out (99%) [TRAILER]

You can't have a “best of horror” list without mentioning "Get Out." The plot, which involves a bi-racial couple making a visit to the girlfriend's (white) parent's house, is both sharp and nimble in its often satirical portrayal of racial tension. The over-the-top plot initially focuses on a particularly awkward form of racial envy, which quickly derails into something much more sadistic - all the while tinged with director Jordan Peele's trademark humor. It is a movie that gives hope to the genre and has absolutely cemented itself as one of the best horror flicks ever made.

Train the Busan (95%) [TRAILER]

A father and daughter find themselves fleeing through the countryside (via train) amidst a zombie apocalypse. It's predictable, gory, and over-the-top, but in our cinematic world, over-peppered with every kind of zombie flick conceivable, Train to Busan still explores nuances amidst its campy and relentless action. Simply put, "Train to Busan" is a well-made and exceptionally entertaining film that still offers a dose of originality from within its South Korean setting. Just try not to take it too seriously.

The Wailing (99%) [TRAILER]

In a quiet south Korean village, a strange visitor appears, and soon after people start violently killing each other. In a panicked desperation, the police consult the occult to aid in solving the mythical blight that threats to spread beyond the village's outskirts. The Wailing is best enjoyed without knowing too much, but this phantasmagoric and gritty film is a cemented gem of Korean horror. It has some flaws and is exceptionally long, but the exploration of creepy eastern cult-mythology makes it well worth the trek.

The Banshee Chapter (75% RT) [TRAILER]

A man goes missing after consuming some CIA branded psychedelic research chemicals - and his friend decides (with the help of a gonzo-inspired journalist) that she’s going to track him down. They acquire the aforementioned chemicals and proceed to smoke them, which apparently allows an evil deity to invade their lives (this particular deity takes the spooky meter and sends it to level 10). The plot is, admittedly, pretty lame, but if you can embrace the campiness, you'll find the movie is legitimately terrifying. I was prepared for a b-movie cheese fest, but for real, this movie is exceptionally spooky.

Hell House (76%) [TRAILER]

A malfunction occurs in an Halloween attraction set on the site of a hotel with a nefarious past, causing the death of 15 people. A half decade later, a documentary crew decides to investigate the tragedy and end up acquiring some tapes of the incident. It's a bit cheesy, but the plot and the acting are pretty damn good for a straight-to-VOD, found footage B-movie. Most importantly, though, is that "Hell House" is extraordinary creepy; completely worth watching for the thrill of horror.

Hereditary (89% RT) [TRAILER]

Cemented by Toni Collette’s wonderful performance, Hereditary is easily the best horror movie of 2018. The movie presents one menacing sucker punch after another as it rips apart the ground beneath the security of home. Both devastating and anything-but-subtle, Hereditary is recommended to those who like ancient demons, candle lit seances, and the occult.

A Quiet Place (95% RT) [TRAILER]

A Quiet Place’s plot, both affecting and inventive, throbs with (at times) agonizing, hold-your-breath tension. At the core you will find a family of four, struggling to survive in a world inhabited by invasive, sound-sensitive creatures who would prefer the extinction of humans. John Krasinski serves as both director and acting lead, which is good news for those of us who could care less for the recent stream of superfluous action movies he’s been producing.

A Dark Song (91% RT) [TRAILER]

Brooding and methodical, A Dark Song is set-piece pagan horror at its finest. It features only two characters: A mother in mourning and an arrogant occultist whom she seeks the aid of. The duo lock themselves in an old mansion to enact a lengthy and risky ritual, one that (ideally) results in a wish being granted. The acting is both fantastic and believable as the characters, in typical horror movie fashion, make mistakes that send them into a descent of madness. It’s witchcraft-gone-wrong; a slow burner with the relentless dread and chaos of a waking nightmare. This is one of my all time favorite indie horror movies. Highly recommended.

1922 (89% RT) [TRAILER]

Unreliably narrated via the confession of a father who murders his wife (and who also ropes his hesitant son into the act), 1922 is a brooding tale of a man driven to madness by way of guilt. There are no jump scares to be found, as the movie favors the father’s slow-rot suffering and his futile and increasingly desperate attempts to bury his festering guilt. Psychological horror at its finest, this King adaptation is another excellent addition to Netflix’s diverse and original collection of horror movies. The Ritual (71%) [TRAILER]

While imperfect at best, this B-movie, set in northern Sweden, provides an interesting set (creepy, frost-dusted hinterlands) inhabited by four bros and an imaginative monster who’d prefer they were hiking somewhere else. Ankles are sprained and tempers swell as the friends become increasingly lost amidst a forest of their misjudgment. This movie is the definition of “pretty decent” with enough substance to hopefully see you through to the “less than decent” finale.

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Locations

Important locations in and around Grimswick. There are things not actually mentioned here, but this should cover most bases.

The Weird Street. The Weird Street is a small street of no more than sixteen houses, but it's location is significant for two reasons that are interconnected. The first being that it is over the heart of where the abomination is sealed, and where the draw for the weird is the strongest - it has never been the heart of the town, but it has always been there.

Important Buildings Grimswick Town Hall. The town hall is located at the center of the town, used for the administration of the local government. It is a large, wide building of a gothic design, trees lined up in front and a fountain in front with three sprays, and a statue of the town founder in front.

Grimswick Bank - Spotlight Banks. The bank, usually referred to only as the Bank but in actuality run by Spotlight Banks, is a modern building, with comfortable chairs and modern designs. All soft edges and light colours.

Grimswick Hospital. The hospital is a modern institution and has great hospital care, partly as it employs several witches as both nurses and doctors but also because it's lately received big donations. It consists of two buildings mixing the modern and the older architecture that define the town - in the center is an old wood building, akin to a huge cottage, where the witch doctors work, and a big building consisting of four pillars, kept together at every other floor with floors acting as walkways. The more modern buildings have both white walls and glass walls.

The Doctor’s Offices. Grimswick has but a handful of doctor’s offices, as most would opt to go to the actual hospital for treatment since it has been forced into being more affordable. Maidens Heart Clinic is one of them, run by three witch-sisters running it out of a cottage and mostly acting as midwives and being the go-to doctors office for those who put no faith in modern medicine. Pure Faith Clinic is a doctors office placed in a more modern building and run by a male witch who is masquerading as a faith healer in his attempts to get medical care to those who favor faith over medicine. Holiday Clinic and Sleepy Times Clinic are two modern and non-witchy doctor’s clinics located in gothic buildings on the opposite ends of the city, but they charge a bit more than Maidens Heart and Pure Faith to stay afloat. Golden Dreams Clinic, meanwhile, is an elite doctors office with equipment and employees rivaling the hospital - a clinic that started once the hospital was forced into being more affordable and is obscenely expensive while being favored by the rich due to their special treatment of those with money. It is located in an extremely modern building, with enough space to give the clients private rooms.

Grimswick Correctional Facility. The town's own prison, a maximum security prison. It is made of stone, and is uninviting and bleak, located just outside of town - just far enough so that the town can be alerted if a prisoner breaks out. The schedule for the prisoners are as following…

8:00 to 8:30 AM - Breakfast

9:00 to 11:30 AM - Rehabilitative Art Program

12:00 to 12:30 PM - Lunch

12:30 to 1:30 PM - "Free Play" in yard

2:00 to 5:30 PM - Rehabilitative License Plate Making

6:00 to 7:00 PM - Evening meal

7:00 to 9:00 PM - Free time

9:00 PM - Lights out

Grimswick Civic Center. A public building used to hold big events. It has a very modern design. From the outside, it seems rather small, but from the inside, it is much larger. The building's name is in bold letters standing out on the glass wall it is placed on, a large clock is fixed onto it above the entrance and it has large windows around the first floor as well as large windows at the other floors. Around the front are a few single walls for posters and news, line barriers, and lights that shoot into the sky. There is an announcement board on the building and a ticket stand standing right in the front center.

The Grimswick Rec Center. The Grimswick Rec Center has something for everyone and it isn’t just a rec center but also a community center, a hub of activity for generations coming together for health and social activities. The fitness floor has with state-of-the-art cardio and strength equipment, three fitness classrooms, an indoor track, a 10,000 square feet aquatics area with 25 yard swimming lanes, a hot tub and several steam rooms, and a gymnasium. It has everything from climbing walls to a small café. It has a very modern design. From the outside, it seems rather small, but from the inside, it is much larger.

Grimswick Whispers. The building in which the Grimswick Whispers newspaper is made, an old gothic building with the silver name hanging on the side of the building. It is located near the center of the town.

Grimswick Cemetery. The only cemetery of Grimswick, located at an edge of the town rather than all that close to any of the churches. It has a gothic fence around it, a mausoleum, and it is large, spanning, and beautiful gravestones. It feels exceedingly ominous at all times of day.

Grimswick Airport. A small airport a bit outside of the city, that isn’t particularly active. A very simple building even if it has outstanding security, the flights going to and from the airport are 2-hour flights at most.

Hotels Pleasant Point Resort & Spa. A large resort at the edge of the city in a luxurious and modern building. It is expensive but includes free access to the Pleasant Point spa, comfortable and modern rooms, and delicious food.

Onyx Rose Resort. A pleasant resort located by the Hungry Shallows lake, it is vaguely run down in recent years but still manages to draw plenty of people with it’ views, gothic building, and food, not to mention a private stretch of the beach.

Courtyard Resort. While small for a resort, it’s because it is set up in an old castle that may or may not have been built in the image of an European caste specifically to serve the function of a resort. Prone to more simple food.

Moonlight Hotel & Spa. A smaller hotel located in a gothic building, most of its size has gone to the spa to which it’s guests have free access. Has notably cozy rooms for a hotel.

Twin Echo Hotel. The biggest hotel in Grimswick, it is in a large gothic building and known to be luxurious. It is the main and most expensive hotel, with comfortable rooms following the style of the building, a fancy hotel restaurant, and a ballroom which can be hired for events.

Lunar Park Hotel. Located next to the Moonlit Park, it is a hotel built in a modern building with some stunning views, it is one of the newest hotels in the city and is incredibly well-kept and clean.

Mirage Hotel. One of the most central hotels in Grimswick, it is notable for only hiring witches to work in the hotel, meaning it has a certain magical quality about the gothic hotel.

Pleasant Blossom Hotel. A hotel known for looking like an overgrown cottage, it is covered with flowers and has a floral theme to everything. Has notably good food and soothing tea blends in its restaurant.

Malachite Court Hotel. A hotel in a gothic building, it is heavily themed around malachite and utterly luxurious, there are rumors about the hotel at the very least having dealings with the Fair Folk.

Private Gardens Hotel. A hotel that, while small on the outside, is rather enormous and built like a mansion-sized cottage. Noted for each hotel room having a private garden, thus the name.

Nimbus Hotel. A somewhat rundown hotel not far from the city centrum, it is located in a gothic building. Quite average all around, it’s most notable feature is how boring it is.

Harborview Hotel. A lakeside hotel built so that one side of the hotel is on a cliff out towards the Hungry Shallows lake. A modern building with some luxurious features, it’s starting to show wear and tear.

Yesteryear Hotel. A worn and somewhat rundown hotel known to be the most haunted hotel in Grimswick, having a vast cast of ghosts in it’s halls and rooms. Being a popular spot for paranormal investigators, it is quite well known for it.

Twilight Rains Hotel. The most central of Grimswicks hotels, it is a rather luxurious and expensive hotel with an unusually open-minded hiring policy despite its high standards.

Quiet Star Motel. A well known hotel, it is a cozy, cottage-like building with similarly cozy rooms, known for its delicious meals it serves as a part of it's bed and breakfast and for having high standards.

Prism Motel. A modern motel that is likely the first hotel one sees upon entering Grimswick due to being right by the highway. Somewhat rundown, but serves a bed and breakfast and is rather secure.

Liberty Motel. Originally built by a serial killer as a lure, now it is more known for having various secret compartments and passages. And the serial killers ghost. The cheapest motel to rent a room at for a very good reason.

Nostalgia Motel. A motel that is more or less stuck in the 50s with it’s decor and it’s employees fashion senses and speech, it is quite cozy if a bit run down.

Windmill Bed & Breakfast. A motel just outside the city, next to an actual windmill as well as a ranch. There is even the possibility to rent a room in the windmill, and one can rent horses or take horseback riding lessons at this small cottage motel.

Amenity Motel. A graceful, cute little modern motel, not far away from where the Night Market commonly sets up. Rather new, and sparkling clean.

Muse Bed & Breakfast. A motel known to display the art of local talents in its rooms, lobby, and corridors, and the owners are outspoken supporters of lesser known artists. A very clean and pretty motel with modern buildings.

Parallel Pinnacle Motel. A rundown and cheap motel with very questionable looks about the rooms and flimsy doors, not terribly well isolated and barely worth the little money one has to shell out to get a room.

Rosewood Motel. A cozy if a bit rundown motel run by the Rosewood family, not far away from the Blackgold forest. In direct competition with the Breakwater Motel.

Breakwater Motel. A cozy if a bit rundown motel run by the Breakwater family, not far away from the Hungry Shallows lake. In direct competition with the Rosewood Motel.

Schools Marble Hills University for the Magical Arts. Founded not too long ago for a culture where magic mainly have been taught to family by family, Marble Hills University for Magical Arts was founded as a way for young witches to study the more theoretical aspects of magic and nurture scholars of magic. While it is a relatively young university, it is shockingly well-organized and these days it counts as a very prestigious college for all that it carters to magic, far out staging similar schools that has sprung up due to its immense success. While Marble Hills began as a purely theoretical college, with only a few courses focusing on Ethics, Magical Medicine, and Magical Sciences, it has since expanded so that those who study at Marble Hills may expand their magical repertoire and skills, though still too advanced for someone to start learning magic at the college. Not actually located in Grimswick, but rather a nearby city.

Grimswick High School. The biggest and oldest high school in the town, which is why it ended up being the high school sharing a name with the town itself. A typical high school in a big, gothic main building, looking far more imposing than it is, with large windows and more modern redesigning and add-ons, such a typical school entrance with stairs and an entrance sign right by it, as well as a modern dragon statue on the other side. The school has stairs, handicap ramps, lockers lining the halls, and a friendlier interior than it's exterior, still favoring rich colours with brighter details. Overall it has all the regular rooms of a typical high school, including a library. A lot of school busses run to and from it and it is located not far from Weird Street. The school mascot is a dragon, called the Dragon Grimm. The classes are nothing unusual for a high school, and the school has a tutoring program. Extracurricular activities are split into events, teams, and clubs. The events are career day, a ski trip, a science fair, various field trips, and a senior class trip that is always a surprise and goes to different places depending on which teacher is heading it. Some of their competitive teams are the basketball team, the baseball team, the cheer squad, the debate team, the fencing team, the football team, gymnastics, the ice-hockey team, the football team, the track team, and mathletes - all going by the Grimswick Dragons when going out on competitions. Known clubs are the newspaper club, the drama club, the philosophy club, the literature club, and the unofficial mystery club. Grimswick High's sport clubs are in fierce competition with the team Frostbury High Falcons. Aside from the teachers, Grimswick High employs a school librarian, Glenna Fear, a cafeteria lady, two janitors, a school nurse, and a school therapist. The study body is big, due to being the town's biggest and most respected high school.

Frostbury High School. A typical high school in a big, modern main building, looking rather simplistic in comparison to the other high schools, with a very typical design and layout. The school has stairs, handicap ramps, lockers lining the halls, and an interior favoring pastel colours. Overall it has all the regular rooms of a typical high school, including a library. A lot of school busses run to and from it. Has an infamous rivalry with Grimswick High, The school mascot is a falcon, called the Frostbury Falcon.

Blackgold High School. A typical high school in a big, cottage-like main building with more modern add-ons, looking rather cozy in comparison to the other high schools, but has a rather typical layout. The school has stairs, handicap ramps, lockers lining the halls, and an interior favoring black and gold colours. Overall it has all the regular rooms of a typical high school, including a library. A lot of school busses run to and from it. Notably has never won any competition to the other two schools for fourteen years, The school mascot is a badger, called the Blackgold Badger.

Grimm Forest Middle School. A typical middle school in a big, modern main building, looking rather simplistic in comparison to the other middle schools, with a very typical design and layout. The school has stairs, handicap ramps, lockers lining the halls, and an interior favoring pastel colours. Overall it has all the regular rooms of a typical middle school, including a library. A lot of school busses run to and from it and it is located a bus trip away from Weird Street, in the other direction than Grimswick High School. The school mascot is an unicorn, called the Grim Unicorn.

Maple Leaf Middle School. A typical middle school in a big, gothic main building, looking rather intimidating if it wasn’t for the vast amount of colourful sculptures and playground around it, but in the end it has a very typical design and layout. The school has stairs, handicap ramps, lockers lining the halls, and an interior favoring greens. Overall it has all the regular rooms of a typical middle school, including a library. A lot of school busses run to and from it. The school mascot is a butterfly, called the Maple Leafly.

Spring Gardens Middle School. A typical middle school in a big, cottage-like main building, and has a small cluster of trees surrounding it and the nearby playground, but in the end it has a very typical design and layout. The school has stairs, handicap ramps, lockers lining the halls, and an interior favoring pastel colours and a dominant colour in dark green. Overall it has all the regular rooms of a typical middle school, including a library. A lot of school busses run to and from it. The school mascot is a swan, called the Spring Swan.

Sacred Heart Elementary School. A typical elementary school in a big, gothic main building with modern add-ons, with a very typical design and layout. The school has stairs, handicap ramps, lockers lining the halls, and an interior favoring pastel colours with richly coloured furniture. Overall it has all the regular rooms of a typical elementary school, including a library, and a grand playground. A lot of school busses run to and from it and it is located a bus trip away from Weird Street, in the direction of the Grimm Forest Middle School. The school mascot is a gryphon, called the Grim Gripe.

Forest Lake Elementary School. A typical elementary school in a big, cottage-like main building with modern add-ons, with a very typical design and layout. The school has stairs, handicap ramps, lockers lining the halls, and an interior favoring pastel colours with white furniture. Overall it has all the regular rooms of a typical elementary school, including a library, and a grand playground. A lot of school busses run to and from it. The school mascot is a kelpie, called the Blackgold Kelpie.

Pinewood Elementary School. A typical elementary school in a big, modern main building, with a very typical design and layout. The school has stairs, handicap ramps, lockers lining the halls, and an interior favoring pastel colours with soft, colourful furniture. Overall it has all the regular rooms of a typical elementary school, including a library, and a grand playground. A lot of school busses run to and from it. The school mascot is a sheep, called the Pinewood Sheep.

Littlewood Elementary School. A typical elementary school in a big, cottage-like main building, with a very typical design and layout inside the imitating shell. The school has stairs, handicap ramps, lockers lining the halls, and an interior favoring pastel colours with dark (and somewhat uncomfortable) furniture. Overall it has all the regular rooms of a typical elementary school, including a library, and a grand playground. A lot of school busses run to and from it. The school mascot is a cat, called the Littlewood Kitten.

Apple Valley Kindergarten. A typical kindergarten in a cottage-like main building, with a rather typical layout. Overall it has all the regular rooms of a typical kindergarten, and a grand playground.

Golden Oak Kindergarten. A typical kindergarten in a modern main building, with a rather typical layout. Overall it has all the regular rooms of a typical kindergarten, and a grand playground.

Elk Grove Kindergarten. A typical kindergarten in a cottage-like main building, with a rather typical layout. Overall it has all the regular rooms of a typical kindergarten, and a grand playground.

Fairy Tales Kindergarten. A typical kindergarten in a gothic main building, with a rather typical layout. Overall it has all the regular rooms of a typical kindergarten, and a grand playground.

Libraries Grimswick Public Library. The town’s public library is large and well-stocked with most mundane books you would want to find, located in a gothic building near the heart of the town, nearby the history museum.

The Insight Library. The towns research library, large and well-stocked with magical and non-magical research material and located in the gothic building right next to the public library.

Museums Grimswick Exploration Museum of History. A large modern building located near the library, filled with dinosaur skeleton and a lot of other parts of history.

Grimswick Vault of Learning. The Museum of Science and Technology, a large modern building located right by the Museum of History.

The Midnight Gallery. A beautiful gothic building containing the art museum of Grimswick - both paintings, and sculptures.

Malls Grimswick Mall and Nexus Malls. Two malls competing against each other in getting the customers, the Grimswick Mall being the larger one with a larger variety of shops, while Nexus Malls has more specialty stores.

Animal-Related Places Little Whiskers. The Grimswick main pet store, located in a gothic building in-between the two malls, having all kinds of animals - felines, canines, reptiles, aquatic, magical. It also holds all kinds of equipment and toys for pets.

Meow or Never. Grimswicks other pet store, located in Nexus Malls, is the direct competitor of Little Whiskers, but sells mostly aquatic and reptilian animals, instead selling an even larger assortment of equipment and toys for pets than their competitor.

Paws a While. The town's animal sanctuary, located in a cottage building by Grimswick Park. It takes in all kinds of animals, both abandoned and hurt, magical and non-magical, to get them healthy and new homes.

Scrubadub Doggie. A grooming spa located right next to Little Whiskers, in a similarly gothic buildings, where all pets can be taken to be pampered. Interior wise it looks like a lot like a human spa with different tools.

Animal Garden Veterinary. The biggest veterinary in the town, and while it might be a bit more expensive it makes up for it with exceptional skill and expertise as well as near unreasonable high standards when hiring.

Happy Paws Veterinary. A somewhat smaller and cheaper veterinary, Happy Paws is the best option on a budget, and it has a great reputation.

The Wiggle Veterinary. The last veterinary one should go to, having a bad reputation they have more than earned and with under qualified employees that has a habit of not treating undesirable or magical animals.

Stay Pawsitive Emergency Veterinary. Located next to the malls, this veterinary has a great reputation and has saved many pets lives, although they have the unfortunate tendency towards overly cutsey decor.

Clothing Stores Buckles & Bows. A high-end fashion store, selling clothes that works as both sporty, preppy, and even gothic clothing for things such as pastel goths. Located in Grimswick Mall.

Styleelite. The biggest, most fashionable clothing store, selling all kinds of styles and fashions. Located in Grimswick Mall.

Glamdust. A high end fashion store, but also the top jewelry store in the town. Located in Grimswick Mall.

Magnificent. A store for the fashions more in line for goths and emos, mainly in dark colours, as well as all kinds of jewelry to go with it. Located in Grimswick Mall.

The Serene Peacock. A fashion store that favors glamourous and “preppy” fashion, selling high fashion and even couture, as well as wedding dresses. Located in Nexus Malls.

Primrose. A clothing store that sells fashionable clothing for reasonable prizes at the expense of somewhat lower quality.

Paradox. A clothing store that sells all kinds of fashions, but it is a bot of a trial to find any specific style as they do not sort the clothing according to fashion style.

Saga. A clothing store selling clothes that wouldn’t look out of place in a fairy tale, for varying prizes depending on quality. As it’s owner is a witch, it is possible to commission clothes to have runes added to them for varying effects.

Anomaly. A clothing store selling varying modern fashions that are popular that year, where it is possible to commission clothes to have runes added to them for varying effects from it’s witch owner.

Repose Design. An actual witch tailor rather than a clothing store, it is expensive to get your clothes here as they tailor and sew clothes on the spot, but allows for any design to be sewn and getting runes for effects added only costs a small additional fee.

Vortex. A clothing store selling more punk and goth fashions than anything else, as well as leather jackets of all kinds and even some jewelry and make-up to match the fashions.

Rara Avis. Part clothing store part sports store, they mostly sell sporty clothing of all kinds rather than what would be considered fashionable but they are also the go-to place to buy swimming suits, trunks, and bikinis.

Aurora Borealis. Part clothing store part sports store, they mostly sell sporty clothing of all kinds rather than what would be considered fashionable and they are more of a sports store than a clothing store.

Aura Accessories. The second biggest jewelry store in the town, they have a vast amount of accessories and even bags as well as a large selection of make-up for sale.

Fairy Dust. The biggest jewelry store in the town, selling a vast amount of jewelry up to and including commission pieces, an enormous selection of make-up, and even candles. The prizes vary from affordable to ridiculously expensive.

Spellbound Gold. A small jewelry store selling jewelry and watches, as well as commission pieces and even commissioned charming of jewelry.

The Earnest Ticker Optician. A small optician with a good reputation, they sell watches on top of glasses and sunglasses as well as having a partnership with the only other optician in the town.

The Curly Clock Optician. A rather large but privately owned optician with a good reputation, they sell watches on top of glasses and sunglasses as well as having a partnership with the only other optician in the town.

Grocery Stores Grimswick Superstore. The biggest grocery store in Grimswick, it is seen as having everything you could ever need or want. Enormous, but useful.

Bliss Market. A series of mini-marts that exists around Grimswick.

7Twelve. Unsurprisingly, 7Twelve has stores around Grimswick, in direct competition to the local Bliss Market.

Cars, Motorcycles, Etc The Auto Doc. The greatest auto repair shop in the city, known to hire most people with skill, regardless of criminal record. Has a great reputation for efficiency and friendliness.

Road Link. A car lot that sells cars, motorcycles, and all other kinds of vehicles. Usually affordable, and usually not a scam.

Abra-Car-Dabra. A car lot that sells cars, and only cars, that can be tied with enchantments for a great fee. Rather expensive, but also doubles as an auto repair shop.

The Grim Raven Garage. An auto repair shop that also happens to sell vehicles to a lesser capacity, although only second hand vehicles.

Wish You Wash Here. A small family-owned chain of car washes that is monopolizing the car wash market.

Gas Stations. Two competing gas station chains is spread out across town, End Zone and Raceway.

Book Stores The Collector's Closet. The comic store in Grimswick Mall, carrying not only comics but also games of both the video and tabletop variety, dice, and other nerd things.

The Talking Book. A bigger-on-the-inside book store that sells a vast array of books, including magical tomes. Also sells notebooks, sketchbooks, pens, and things of that nature, but to a very minor degree. Located in Grimswick Mall.

The Sleeping Writer. A sizable book store that sells a vast array of books. Also sells notebooks, sketchbooks, pens, and things of that nature, including some more niche items that are marketed specifically towards writers. Located in Nexus Malls.

The Whispering Story. A small book store that sells a vast array of books, willing to order books if they don’t have them in stock. Also sells tabletop games, notebooks, sketchbooks, pens, and things of that nature.

The Puzzled Crow. A small bookstore that mostly sells pocket books and travel guides, but has books in a lot of languages instead.

The Dreaming Bee. A small bookstore owned by a young witch, mostly selling enchanted books.

Hardware Stores The Toolbox. The biggest hardware store in town, located by the superstore.

The Yawning Hammer. A hardware store near the edge of town that also notably sells a lot of wood and metals, among else.

The Iron Mask Hardware Store. A smaller hardware store that is located next to Nexus Malls.

Spot of Colour. An interior design store that first and foremost sells paints of all kinds, as well as wallpapers, floors, and more.

Art and Craft Stores The Smoking Boar Laser Wares. A small store that is located next to the Iron Mask Hardware Store, selling laser wares, as well as parts for spares and repairs, even keys.

In Stitches. A small fabric store that sells all kinds of sewing supplies located in Nexus Malls.

Needle in a Haystack. An enormous arts and crafts store not far from the superstore selling anything that can be used in arts and crafts - fabrics, clay, supplies, wood, stone, etc - as well as some more niche things such as edible glitter.

Art From Scratch. A hobby store that also sells various DIY things and books, anatomical figures, wooden mannequin models, and more and more and more. Located in Grimswick Mall.

By Design. A hobby store that also happens to sell various handmade objects.

The Velvet Pen. A small stationary store in Grimswick Mall.

Furniture Stores Interior Dreams. The biggest furniture store in town, enormous, located by the superstore and The Toolbox.

Sofa So Good. Another large furniture store, notably more expensive than Interior Dreams.

The Trusty Table. A large furniture store that can easily compete with Interior Dreams and Sofa So Good.

Tech Stores Radio-Active. The largest store in Grimswick to sell all kinds of technology. About the size of a large warehouse, selling TVs, computers, speakers, headphones, and more.

Bits & PCs. A store in Grimswick Mall, selling laptop computers, and all kinds of small or niche pieces of technology.

Drink and Candy Stores The Secret Stash Liquor Store. A chain of liquor stores with a monopoly on selling all kinds of alcohol in Grimswick in a bid to lower the alcoholism rate by the mayor.

The Bubbling Elixir. A small store selling elixirs, potions, and sodas with magical properties such as alcoholic beverages that causes you to breathe fire, sodas that create butterflies when they bubble, and so on.

Popping Pops. A malt shop, looking a lot like a 50's diner, and carrying all kinds but also their own sodas. Located in Nexus Malls.

The Joking Pixie. A sizable candy store and movie rental place that sells an extensive variation of candy.

Magic Stores Spell It Away. A witch store with all kinds of regents and tools for witches, including wands and spell books and even things for Familiars. Also publishes it's own magazine for witches from the back of the store, Familiar Oddities. Located in Nexus Malls.

The Last Search Wand Store. A small witch store that only sells wands, hand-crafted to the specifications of the witch. A fair bit more expensive than Spell It Away due to mainly doing commission pieces.

Toy Stores All for Fun. A huge toy store whose slogan is “and fun for all”, selling all kinds of toys and things for children of all ages.

Skip'n'Smile. A huge toy store that is the only one that has managed to compete with All for Fun in Grimswick, selling all kinds of toys and things for children of all ages.

Garden Stores The Misty Garden. The warehouse-sized garden store, selling everything from actual items to flowers and plants.

The Blushing Rose. A smaller florist that is more central than the Misty Garden, but also has a smaller variety.

Other Stores Secrets of the Past. An antique store, beautiful and a bit cramped, it is kind of dark and some of the antiques might not be safe and some may be magical. Located in Nexus Malls.

Another Man's Treasures. A thrift store located in-between the malls, carrying both magical and non-magical things.

The Brass Expanse Pawn Shop. A small pawn store run by a family man located near Nexus Malls.

The Challenging Moon Music Store. A small music store selling instruments and books of music sheets. Also offers music lessons on weekends.

The Fading Virus Pharmacy. The only pharmacy chain in Grimswick, whose prizes is policed by the mayors office to make sure it is affordable in return of having monopoly.

Grimswick Gift Shop. A typical tourist trap gift shop chain, which things are mostly rather overpriced.

Buy the Way. A travel store chain that can be found at a few locations in Grimswick but whose main office is right by Grimswick Mall.

Looks and Grooming Barber Blues. A barber shop, with the most reasonable prizes and friendliest people. Located in Grimswick Mall.

Hairs Johnny. A hairdresser which focuses mainly at masculine haircuts.

Hair and There. A hairdresser which can cut pretty much anyones hair to perfection.

The Floating Mirror. A hairdresser which focuses mainly at feminine haircuts.

Ink Inclined. A tattoo parlor in a gothic building that has yearly charity events.

Colors of Magic. A tattoo parlor that is only employing witches, known to tattoo magical runes with helpful, illusional, or mundane effects at request.

The Art of Ink. A smaller tattoo parlor that only has two tattooists employed, located side by side with Barber Blues.

The Elegant Mask Beauty Salon. The most popular and well-renowned beauty salon in Grimswick, located in Grimswick Mall.

The Defiant Beauty. A smaller beauty salon that still manages to survive without being outcompeted by the Elegant Mask. Located in Nexus Malls.

Tranquility Wellness Spa. The greatest spa in Grimswick, luxurious and relatively cheap, it is a very bright and modern facility in a modern building. Plenty of the staff members belongs to a cult.

Little Waves Bath & Spa. A small but popular spa, more homely than Tranquility Wellness but still modern, although has a bit of a smaller range of services. Mainly focuses on water-based spa treatments.

Cozy Corners Spa. A middling spa that is very cozy and set up in a nice cottage-like building, favoring spa treatments that use no technology. Always smells of incense.

Crease Lightning Dry Cleaners. One of two dry cleaner chains in Grimswick, this is the older one with a bit more history but most facilities are showing wear and tear.

Clean Getaway Dry Cleaners. One of two dry cleaner chains in Grimswick, this one is more recent and has near spotless facilities still.

Recreation The Nightowl Arcade. An old-timey arcade with all kinds of arcade grades, and on the cheap side. Located in Nexus Malls.

The Firefly Theater. The biggest movie theater in Grimswick. Shows the newest and hottest movies, sells snacks and soda, and is in warm red and gold colours. Located in Grimswick Mall.

Battlefield 51. A laser tag arena, complete with fog machines and everything, and has two different arenas.

Strike the Record. A bowling alley that is right next door to Battlefield 51, also sells food and snacks, and holds competitions every now and then.

Grimswick Ice Rinks. Grimswick only ice skating and ice hockey facilities, it has two big rings and a couple of smaller ones for other ice sports inside, and one big ring outside that is used as a soccer field in the summer.

Grimswick Stadium. Grimswicks football and soccer stadium, it is quite large while being on the outskirts of town.

Lost Balls. Grimswick's mini-golf course, with themed holes all having something to do with supernatural creatures - either as minor decor or a major part or the hole.

Grimswick Pool. A large outdoor pool with trampolines at three different heights, and a water slide. Popular during the summer.

Fit and Lift Gym Center. The largest gym in Grimswick, it has about everything a person can use when training in a gym, up to and including a climbing wall as well as several rooms for things such as yoga and cardio. The membership fees are quite affordable.

The Fitness Pack. A smaller gym, it has most machines but only two side rooms, although it also has a cheaper membership fee.

The Workout Zone. A smaller gym, it has most machines but no side rooms, although it also has the cheapest membership fee.

Grimswick Dojo. A modern building with ten rooms where all martial arts being taught in Grimswick is, well, taught.

Bakeries Icing on the Cake. A cute little bakery located in Nexus Malls, it is bright with an interior with comfy seats and pastel colours, it has amazing cakes of all kinds and descriptions, and flavors both normal and odd.

Flour Leaves. A bakery known to serve breakfast to those who shop there before lunch, it is a comfortable and cozy little bakery nestled in by the libraries. Most everything baked in here could qualify for a work of art.

Sugar Bliss. Located in a gothic building, Sugar Bliss has an interior with dark wood, rich red seats, and a gothic styling to it, even selling cakes and bakeries in the style on top of their regular works.

Rise of the Buns. A bakery in a gothic building, Rise of the Bun has a far lighter interior than it’s exterior and is known to have some of the towns best bread and cinnamon buns, always sold just out of the oven.

Carpe Donut. A little donut “chain” with two stores located in Nexus Malls and not far from Grimswicks police station, they sell all kinds of donuts with all kind of tastes.

Sweet Beat. A small bakery famous for its muffins and those muffins being works of art, including but not limited to tastes such as red velvet, three chocolate, and citrus.

Cafes Bean There Cafe. Known for its delicious coffees, both normal and not, and tea blends, of all kinds, it has a modern semi-gothic interior with soft lighting. Located in Grimswick Mall.

Tasty Temptations Cafe. Known for its remarkably delicious sweets and dream-like decor and design, it has incredibly soft seats and an exceedingly big selection of sweets and drinks. Located in Nexus Malls.

Silk Shack Tearoom. More of a tea house than a cafe, it has an oriental design and decor, and sells most every tea and some on top of that - odd and normal blends, with little cakes to it. Run by the Himura family.

Slice of Life Bistro. A popular bistro with floral designs, with comfortable chairs, and bright lightning as well as glass tables and dividers.

The Mellow Kettle. A small cafe located in a cottage building, it is run by a witch who makes drinks with all kinds of temporary effects such as increased luck, charm, or confidence.

See You Latte. A coffee shop not far from Grimswick High. Rather ordinary overall, even located in a modern building, but heavily trafficked by students.

Bean Me Up. A coffee shop in between Nexus Malls and Grimswick Mall, Bean Me Up has a vast variety of both coffee and sweets.

Sunbucks. A huge coffee shop chain, they have a total of one location in Grimswick.

Pizzerias The Pizza Saga Pizzeria. A pizzeria with a heavy medieval and fairy tale theme, it has its personnel dressed up in medieval clothes, occasionally armor, and pet dragons that keep people company as they eat if they seem lonely.

Slice of Heaven Pizzeria. A pizzeria which is very white, with a sky/heaven theme about their locale with cloud-like seating and white and blue colourings.

The Pizza de Resistance Pizzeria. A pizzeria near the malls that has a very simple and classic interior inside a gothic building. They allow customers to pick out their toppings by themselves if they wish.

The Meadough Pizzeria. A pizzeria in a cottage closer to the forest that has an indoor garden as well as seating out in an actual meadow-garden.

The Dough Must Go On Pizzeria. A pizzeria with a theatrical theme located in a gothic building, it has a tenancy of having an experimental pizza every month that may become a part of the menu if well-received.

The Bake’n’Take Pizzeria. A very small pizzeria in a small modern building, it encourages people to take their pizzas to go or order them to their homes.

Fast Food Lord of the Fries. A very popular hamburger chain in Grimswick, that (combined with the other two Grimswick hamburger chains) is popular enough to outcompete larger chains. Also serves fries bits.

Bar Humbug. A very popular hamburger chain in Grimswick, that (combined with the other two Grimswick hamburger chains) is popular enough to outcompete larger chains. Only serves burgers to eat.

Happy Smiles. A very popular hamburger chain in Grimswick, that (combined with the other two Grimswick hamburger chains) is popular enough to outcompete larger chains. Recently was forced to rebrand.

Hunger Games. A popular fast food restaurant chain in Grimswick that sells hamburgers, pizza, fried chicken, and sandwiches. Among other things.

Gluttony! The Hunger Games only competitor to also sell hamburgers, pizza, fried chicken, and sandwiches among other things.

Dangy’s. A popular sandwich restaurant, with a lot of varying versions of sandwiches.

Happyway. A fast food restaurant easily found in highly trafficked areas - in both malls and the airport.

MadWings. A fast food restaurant specializing in fried chicken of all kinds. Also has a lot of chicken wings.

annabelle. A casual fast food restaurant specializing in hamburgers, hotdogs, sandwiches, and fries.

Dreamling. A fast food restaurant specializing in american chinese food.

Buncha Burritos. A fast food restaurant that serve a variety of Mexican inspired foods that include tacos, burritos, quesadillas, and nachos.

Carlas Curbside Carryout. A simple fast food restaurant, specializing in curries.

Drive'n'Dine. A fast food restaurant, with no direct specialization but has a very efficient drive-in take-out.

The Fire Pit. A fast food restaurant that serves anything that can be grilled.

Freddys Freakin Fast Finger Food. A fast food restaurant that serves exclusively finger food and is near supernaturally fast with making them.

Throw the Bones. A fast food restaurant specializing in chicken legs and wings.

7 Seasons. A fast food restaurant that serves exclusively sandwiches and fries.

Living a Pie. A fast food restaurant that serves a vast amount of pies.

Restaurants Interlude. A popular and relatively cheap restaurant, with a large variety of food from a variety of countries, and customers from all walks of life. Noticeably in a cottage-like building.

The Glass Palace. The most expensive restaurant in the town, with fragile and expensive glass sculptures as decoration on top of it's expensive modern interior and gourmet meals.

Shambles. A gothic restaurant with puzzle-like designs located right by Nexus Malls, has a wide variety of food to pick between.

The Urban Orchid. A nice restaurant in a gothic building, it is one of the more expensive ones. Noted for having an urban aesthetic while being covered in orchids.

The Obsidian Orchard. One of the most expensive restaurants in the town, it is a very dark and somewhat creepy gothic restaurant in a gothic building.

The Creeping Cat. A nice little middle-class restaurant with a cat theme, it is notable for the owner having cats that come and go through the restaurant as they please.

The White Raven. A restaurant in a nice and modern building, it is very bright with pastel colours and dominantly white, which the cleaning spells woven into the entire restaurant help with.

The Golden Spoon. A middling restaurant in a cottage-like building, it is not much of note aside from being haunted and having the best waffles in town.

Pulp Kitchen. A middling restaurant in a modern building that has some interesting, odd dishes on its menu.

Grillers in the Mist. A middling restaurant that mostly has grilled foods on its menu, as well as a monthly all you can eat BBQ buffet.

The Codfather. A seafood restaurant located by the Hungry Shallows lake in a gothic building, the Codfather leans into the mob aesthetic and may have a mob ghost or two haunting them.

Wok and Roll. A nice restaurant with some amazing food, it mostly serves asiatic food that would pass as such, from various woks to soups to curries to spring rolls to sushi.

Wok With Me. A rather nice restaurant that almost exclusively serves woks.

The Noodle Street. A nice little restaurant that serves a wealth of noodle-based meals.

Thai Riffic. A thai restaurant that is run by a family from that country, with expertly prepared foods although one should be cautious about the spiciness warnings.

Tierra y Mar. A spanish/mexican restaurant that is run by a mexican family, it is located quite centrally and has high standards for the food.

The Eclipse Diner. A typical American diner, with designs and an interior designed to remind of a night sky with no moon, it is cozy and has a very friendly mood.

Late Night Dine Right. A stylish american diner, that serves a bit like a waffle house despite serving a lot of other foods.

Grandma's House. An mom and pops place with very homely feel and home cooked taste to the food.

Sunrise Diner. A nice but typical American diner whose only claim to fame is lying right by the airport.

The Eatery. A simple and nice diner that is very average overall, with exceptionally greasy food.

Two Men and a Griddle. A small grill-based restaurant that is run by a gay couple.

Farmhouse Diner. A diner located at the edge of town, having refurbished an old farmhouse into a diner.

Rosie's Place. A diner entirely themed after the 50s with waitresses on roller skates. Highly feminist.

Grub'n'Stuff Diner. A highly greasy and rundown diner that is only staying in business by being cheap.

Clubbing The Veil. One of the most popular nightclubs in Grimswick, known to actually have veils and smoke machines to set the mood in the club, it has a cozy dark interior of gothic stylings.

The Solstice. A nightclub known for its brightly sun-themed design despite being a dark and neon nightclub.

Club Bliss. The nightclub to be at, the most popular nightclub in town, it is split in differently coloured sections following the rainbow, incredibly comfortable furniture, and a stage with live bands and DJs showing the sound waves and pillars on a display behind them in neon.

The Dawn Widow. A biker's club, it is smoky, with leather seats, pool to play, a dark wooden bar, and a motorcycle theme with trash sculptures and soft lighting.

Alibi. A bar that may not be the most popular, rather being smokey and dark, the kind of bar that in the movies would be where crooks gather to play pool. In reality it is a rather friendly and safe club.

Obelisk. A gothic bar that is known to have a bit of a problems with illegal substances both magical and non-magical that nobody in the police can really put a stop on.

Club Pyre. A night club and bar that is vastly red, orange, and gold colours as it is noticeably themed after fire and pyres.

Club Delight. A gay club for both women and men, Club Delight is generally considered a safe space.

The Whisper. A small bar in the basement of a gothic building, filled with comfortable seating, silks, and pillows.

The Vortex. A shabby bar that is very run down but sells quite cheap booze.

The Underworld. The main bar for witches and humanoid supernaturals in town, it is a very well taken care of bars with very potent alcohol that causes magical effects.

Nightingale. A somewhat rundown bar that is mostly popular due to always having live performers and relatively decent alcohol for affordable prizes.

What Ales You. A brewpub that not only serves pretty damn good food, but also serves a variety of brews both classical and experimental.

Churches Catholic Churches. There is a total of three catholic churches in Grimswick. Only one of them are notably large but that one is especially beautiful and gothic, and there are two smaller Catholic churches in modern buildings.

Orthodox Church. There is only one Orthodox church in Grimswick, in a nice and suiting gothic building.

Protestant Church. There are two churches for the Protestant faith, one that is notably larger than the other. The larger one, like the other two large Christian churches, is in a large gothic building, while the smaller one is in a modern building.

Synagogue. Located in a gothic building, there is a singular synagogue in the whole of Grimswick.

Mosque. Recently a mosque has been built in Grimswick near the city center, after specifications from the muslim population of Grimswick. It’s not a particularly big one, however.

Church of the Eternal One (Stell'hrii). A church in a modern building, nearly completely white and very bright. This religion being a cult based in Grimswick, it has an unsettlingly good reputation. So far.

Nature Grimswick Park. The park by the heart of the town, it is sizable with statues of famous figures of the town, a pair of ponds, and a fountain in the center of the park. Rich on flowers.

The Moonlit Park. A small park between the Elementary and Middle schools, it is a rather small park with a sizable playground.

Lakeview Garden. A garden park at the highest point of the town, with a beautiful view of the lake and town. Has a statue of a woman dancing with a dragon.

Memorial Park. A nice park that isn’t very far from Weird Street, it has a series of memorials spread out across the park.

Dogwood Park. A park more commonly known as “the dog park”.

Ladybug Park. A nice little park, popular among bug hunters but also has a small playground with a heavy ladybug theme.

Mirror Lake Plaza. A decently sized park with a small pond in the center of it that often has swans and other birds in it.

Hungry Shallows. The lake Grimswick is built right next to, it is a large lake infamous for sinking boats on seemingly moving shallows and has a boat graveyard, as well as two small islands in the center of it. It also has good fishing and at least one sea monster residing in it.

Blackgold Forest. The forest that surrounds Grimswick, rarely referred to by name. It is easy to get lost in.

Hiking Trails. A variety of hiking trains can be reached from Grimswick, if one braves the Blackgold Forest. These trains are generally clearly market, but there may be unexpected dangers along them.

Biking Trails. There are plenty of biking trails around Grimswick, all clearly marked.

Camps Camp Sundown. The town's very own summer camp, not far outside of town and right by the lake, it has a lot of activities for both young kids and teenagers of all ages, rather comfortable sleeping quarters, and a tradition that each years campers build something to leave as a gift for the next years campers. The camp has an activities field, a mess hall with a flag in front of it, the quartermaster's store, the councilors’ cabin and office, an amphitheater, a camp area in which the campers rest and sleep in tents, a boathouse, a dock, a campfire pit, an archery range, a rock-climbing wall, several hiking trails, and a courtyard with a center gazebo, wooden benches, a totem pole, and a stone sundial. The camps at Camp Sundown are Science, Adventure, Hiking, Theater, Literature, Art, Magic, Archery, Fishing, First Aid, Knitting, Knot Tying, Swimming, Rowing, Canoeing, Basket Weaving, and a fair deal more. As such the campers tend to have niche talents and overly specific skill sets.

Camp Midnight. The town’s boy scout camp - the Midnight Boys are somewhat militaristic, but does not actually teach fighting. Mainly wilderness survival and physical activities. It has activities for campers up until adulthood. The camp has an activities field, a mess hall with a flag in front of it, a quartermaster's store, a councilors’ cabin and office, a camp area in which the campers rest and sleep in tents, a dock, and various training areas.

Camp Sunshine. The town’s girl scout camp - the Sunshine Girls are very feminine and typical of a girl scout organization, with stereotypically feminine activities. Encourages femininity as well as teaching manipulation and having its own death courses. The camp has a high-tech set of buildings, complete with a mess hall with a flag above it, the councilors’ rooms and office, dorms for their campers, and a courtyard.

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Anaconda, Andrew Bogut, and Animals: aliyah e Id 50129, 4 Yrs., 45 lbs of Gentle Manhattan ACC INTAKE DATE: 01-02-2019 “I was returned after only 2 weeks because my new family’s dog attacked me and hurt me. She told my parents it was me or her, and they chose her.” ☹ Timid little house mouse Aaliyah is so gentle, loving and sweet, and she has found herself at the least comforting place in NYC – the Manhattan Care Center. Her beautiful almond eyes show her confusion and angst, but the volunteers comfort her, hold her close, and let her know that they will try very hard to find her a new family to love. During her stay she has made friends, and she adores spending time in the play yard with them, carefree and chasing tennis balls with glee. Aaliyah looks nothing so much as a young deer, delicate of features, small in stature, and hoping with all her gentle heart that the volunteers are right, and her dream of a home for the holidays will come true. All this girl needs is a quiet, calm, loving home with a routine she can count on. She is a good girl, with a loving heart. Hurry and Message or page or email us at [email protected] for assistance fostering or adopting Aaliyah now. A volunteer writes: “She has an endearing face that begs for a walk and company and this is why I picked Aaliyah as my first date of the day at the care center. Aaliyah is a shy little gal, a bit lost but who here and there reveals that she might have a happy and playful personality. The sight of a ball sends her running and jumping, even catching the object at times. She comes briefly on the bench, gives a furtive kiss to her caretaker, takes a treat that she spits out or go to the gate, wagging her tail at a handsome male seeking her company. And then, she is her timid mouse, again, waiting for her mind to warm up some more and bloom into the likely sweet and social dog she really is. Come and meet Aaliyah at the Manhattan Care Center and help her find again her livelihood!” MY VIDEOS: Adrian aka Aaliyah - the lovliest little lady https://youtu.be/YhrkQxZza0M Adrian aka Aaliyah and Beignet https://youtu.be/J44SybgMc3Q Rigby and Aaliyah in playgroup https://youtu.be/fk8vvmdnH0Q AALIYAH aka ADRIAN, ID# 50129, @ 4 Yrs. Old, 45 lbs. Manhattan ACC, Medium Mixed Breed, Brown / White, Unaltered Female Return Reason: owner return – States her other dog bit Aaliyah, so due to the behavior of her other resident pet she was unable to keep Aaliyah. Shelter Assessment Rating: Adult Only Home (no children under Age 13) Intake Behavior Rating: OWNER SURRENDER NOTES - BASIC INFORMATION: Aaliyah is a roughly 4 year old dog whom was adopted from ACC and kept in the same home for 2 weeks. Unfortunately due to the behavior of the resident pet she was unable to be kept. Aaliyah previously lived with 2 adults and 1 dog. She was super friendly and excited around strangers. She was receptive to head and body touches. Around children of the ages 11 and 13 she is described as friendly and affectionate and plays exuberantly. Around dogs in a dog park she is described as very playful and plays exuberantly. Aaliyahs behavior around cats was not observed. Aaliyah is described to have resource guarding issues when it came to the other dog attempting to approach and would growl. She does not have resource guarding issues when it comes to people Aaliiyah is housetrained and has a high energy level. She has not had any medical issues/ Other Notes: Aaliyah is described to bark when hearing people in the hall, is afraid of being held and isn't bothered with unfamiliar people approaching her home or owner. For a New Family to Know: Aaliyah is described as friendly, affectionate, playful, excitable and confident. She loves to give kisses and can jump high up to your face. She likes to play with squeak toys and stuffed animals and likes to play fetch and tug. She was being fed Pedigree wet and dry food 2 times a day, is considered very house trained, knows the command sit, was being walked 4 times a day and pulls very hard on leash. INTAKE BEHAVIOR – DATE OF INTAKE, 1/2/2019: Upon intake Aaliyah allowed all handling. She allowed being collared, being handled and was very receptive to head and body touches. She also had a very healthy appetite for office treats as well and was very treat motivated. MEDICAL EXAM NOTES / Intake 01-02-2019 13-Jan-2019 Progress Exam. SO. P noted to not be eating dog food but does like fresh pet. Setting up medical feeding. Assessment: anorexia / hyporexia. Plan: medical feeding q12h x 4 days. 10-Jan-2019 Progress Exam. Adding trazodone 100mg tablet -- give 2 tablets PO q12h x 14 days, for anxiety. 2-Jan-2019 DVM Intake Exam. Estimated age: 4y. Microchip noted on Intake? Yes. Microchip Number (If applicable): 985113002484554. History : owner return - states other dog bit this dog. Subjective: BARH, good appetite no elimination concerns. Observed Behavior - fearful look and posture, was muzzled, would cry and try to nip when handled at all. Evidence of Cruelty seen – no. Evidence of Trauma seen - yes, bite wound to the face. Objective: P = wnl, R = wnl, BCS 6/9. EENT: Eyes clear, ears clean, no nasal or ocular discharge noted. Oral Exam: unremarkable, full adult teeth, mmild dental tartar. PLN: No enlargements noted. H/L: NSR, NMA, CRT < 2, Lungs clear, eupnic. ABD: Tense abd, could not fully assess due to thrashing and crying. U/G: female intact, no leakage or discharge. MSI: Ambulatory x 4, skin free of parasites, no masses noted, healthy hair coat, few scrapes and punctures along the face and muzzle that have old dry scabs, skin growth on the buttocks resembling a nipple. CNS: Mentation appropriate - no signs of neurologic abnormalities. Rectal: visually normal. Assessment wounds - dog bite, scabbed and healing. Prognosis: excellent. Plan: ok for surgery. Monitor the wounds to complete healing. SURGERY: Okay for surgery --------------------------------------------------------- NOTES FIRST STAY / Intake 8-Dec-2018 ADRIAN, ID# 50129, @ 4 Yrs. Old, 45 lbs. Manhattan ACC, Medium Mixed Breed, Brown / White, Unaltered Female Owner Surrender Reason: Stray Shelter Assessment Rating: Adult Only Home (no children under Age 13) Intake Behavior Rating: SHELTER ASSESSMENT - Date of assessment: 9-Dec-2018 Look: 1. Dog's eyes are averted, ears are back, tail is down, relaxed body posture. Dog allows head to be held loosely in Assessor's cupped hands. Sensitivity: 1. Dog leans into the Assessor, eyes soft or squinty, soft and loose body, open mouth. Tag: 1. Dog follows at the end of the leash, body soft. Paw squeeze 1: 4. Dog growls. Paw squeeze 2: Item not conducted Flank squeeze 1: 1. Dog does not respond at all. Flank squeeze 2: 1. Dog does not respond at all. Toy: 1. Minimal interest in toy, dog may smell or lick, then turns away. Summary: Adrian approached the assessor with a soft body and displayed social behavior. When her paw was touched, she raised her lip, so flank was used. PLAYGROUP NOTES – DOG TO DOG SUMMARIES: Summary (1): 12/9: When introduced off leash to the male greeter dog, Adrian engages in soft play. She offers appropriate correction when uncomfortable with more rambunctious play. Summary (2): 12/10: Adrian keeps mostly to herself. Summary (3): 12/12: Adrian engages in bouts of softer play. INTAKE BEHAVIOR - Date of intake: 8-Dec-2018. Summary: Social, allowed handling. ENERGY LEVEL: We have no history on Adrian so we cannot be certain of her behavior in a home environment. At the care center, she displays a medium level of activity. BEHAVIOR DETERMINATION: ADULT ONLY HOME Behavior Asilomar - TM - Treatable-Manageable Recommendations: No children (under 13) Recommendations comments: No children: Due to handling sensitivity seen on her assessment, we recommend an adult only home. Potential challenges: Handling/touch sensitivity Potential challenges comments: Handling/touch sensitivity: Adrian has raised her lip and showed teeth when her paw was handled, showing discomfort with touch in certain areas. It is important to avoid touching Adrians's paws at this time and to be cautious when touching her in other areas as we do not know where she may have other sensitivities. Positive reinforcement, reward based training should be used to pair touch with good things such as food rewards in order to teach Adrian to be more comfortable with this. MEDICAL EXAM NOTES: 17-Dec-2018 Progress Exam. Hx: Coughed a few times this morning. On Clavamox for UTI. S: Alert in kennel, lying down on bed, not interested in getting up at first. When I came back an hour later, she did get up and come to the front. O: Mild serous nasal discharge, sniffly. A: CIRDC likely. P: Move to isolation. 1. Doxycycline 200 mg PO SID x14 days. 2. Cerenia 45 mg PO SID x4 days 17-Dec-2018 Other Lab Interpretation. ASSESSMENT: Urinalysis and culture were consistent with infection by two organisms, both sensitive to Clavamox. Crystals were present, and crystals can correlate with the presence of stones, but they can also be present without stones. PLAN: Continue antibiotic treatment as scheduled. No need to change to a special diet at this time; however if pt develops recurrent UTIs, and rads are still negative for stones, then an ultrasound and special diet may be indicated. Urinalysis Collection - CYSTOCENTESIS Color RED Clarity TURBID. Specific Gravity 1.039. pH 7.5. Urine Protein 4+. Glucose NEGATIVE. Ketones NEGATIVE Blood / Hemoglobin 3+. Bilirubin 1+. Urobilinogen NORMAL. White Blood Cells 0-2. Red Blood Cells > 100 HPF Bacteria MODERATE RODS 9-40/HPF. Epithelial Cells RARE (0-1). Mucus PRESENT Casts NONE SEEN Crystals 3+ AMMONIUM MG PHOSPHATE (21-50)/HPF Microbiology. Source: URINE_CYSTO. Culture Results: Status: FINAL. Isolate 1: Proteus mirabilis - 50,000 - 100,000 CFU per ml. Isolate 2: Staphylococcus pseudintermedius - 50,000 - 100,000 CFU per ml Isolate 1 MIC Isolate 2 MIC . Amoxicillin-Clavulanic Acid S S <=2 12-Dec-2018 Other Lab Interpretation. Preliminary urinaysis results Idexx - culture still pending . Refer to Vetconnect for full report. Summary: - USG 1039 normal, - Proteinuria (+4) - Hematuria (+3), - Bacterial Moderate Rods 9-40 HPF - Crystals 3 + Ammonium MG Phosphate, A: - UTI - Ecoli suspected. - Crystaluria - struvites. - Culture and MIC PENDING. P: - Clavamox 13.75 mg/kg BID PO for 14 days. RECOMMENDATIONS TO ADOPTERS - Place on a prescription diet for urinary dissolution (e.g Urinary S/D) indefinitely 11-Dec-2018 Radiograph Review. Vet Notes: 4:59 PM. S/O - marked hematuria - could not perform urinalysis due to over abundance of blood in the urine. Sedated Abdominal radiographs - 0.4 ml Dexmeditomidine 0.2 ml Butorphanol IM. No hyper-opaque crystal seen in the bladder or kidney or urethera on v/d or lateral. Lateral R and Left radio-graph - bladder full, intestines gas filled with the colon fecal filled. Left kidney visible. V/D abdomen - gas filled intestines visible. Colon full with fecal matter. Pelvis intact with no fractures or signs of osteoarthritis. 5 ml Urine collected by cystocentesis - sent to Idexx for Urinalysis and culture. Pt was fully reversed with 0.4 ml antisedan IM. 11-Dec-2018 Tech Exam. L V T Notes: 4:34 PM. Sedated abdominal xrays - V/D and Lateral done. Uploaded to vet documents. cysto- sent out to idexx. 11-Dec-2018 Tech Exam. L V T Notes: 3:28 PM. Urine was obtained free -catch and was extremely bloody, too bloody to do a urinalysis in-house as per Dr. 1493. The specific gravity was 1.052. Dr. 1493 is recommending that sedated rads. 9-Dec-2018 DVM Intake. Blood Work Interpretation. Vet Notes: 6:02 PM. CBC: Hct 44%, WBC 9.3 k/ul, unremarkable diff, Plt 385 k/ul. Chemistry: Glucose 113 mg/dl, BUN 15 mg/dl, creat 1.2 mg/dl, Albumin 3.7 g/dl, globs 4.1 g/dl, Unremarkable liver values, tT4 1.6 ug/dl, ASSESSMENT: Unremarkable. 1088 Vet Notes: 5:40 PM. DVM Intake Exam. Estimated age: Estimated 4-8 years old based on dentition and overall appearance. Microchip noted on Intake? Scanned negative. History : Stray, no health hx prior to admission. Pt had hematuria this morning. Subjective: Alert, walks well on leash. Observed Behavior - Tense, whines and jumps away from restraint and touch to legs, abdomen, hind end. Tail tucked. Evidence of Cruelty seen – None. Evidence of Trauma seen – None Objective: BAR-H, MMs pink and moist, BCS 6-7/9, EENT: Eyes clear, ears clean, no nasal or ocular discharge noted. Ear margins have healed lacerations. Patchy alopecia on lateral pinnae - quiet skin. Oral Exam: Muzzled. Incisors have mild staining. PLN: No enlargements noted. H/L: NSR, NMA, CRT < 2, Lungs clear, eupnic, no coughing or sneezing. ABD: Tense, not distended, no masses palpated. U/G: Female, pendulous nipples, no spay scar visible. MSI: Ambulatory x 4, skin free of parasites, no masses noted, healthy hair coat. CNS: Mentation appropriate - no signs of neurologic abnormalities. Rectal: Normal externally. Assessment: 1. Hx hematuria - R/O UTI vs. stones vs. abd trauma vs. in heat vs. other cause, 2. Overweight, 3. Suspect dental disease. Prognosis: Good. Plan: 1. CBC/chem/T4, 2. UA, 3. Recommend weight loss of approx 5 lbs. SURGERY: Okay for surgery pending unremarkable bloodwork. *** TO FOSTER OR ADOPT *** If you would like to adopt a NYC ACC dog, and can get to the shelter in person to complete the adoption process, you can contact the shelter directly. We have provided the Brooklyn, Staten Island and Manhattan information below. Adoption hours at these facilities is Noon – 8:00 p.m. (6:30 on weekends) If you CANNOT get to the shelter in person and you want to FOSTER OR ADOPT a NYC ACC Dog, you can PRIVATE MESSAGE our Must Love Dogs page for assistance. PLEASE NOTE: You MUST live in NY, NJ, PA, CT, RI, DE, MD, MA, NH, VT, ME or Northern VA. You will need to fill out applications with a New Hope Rescue Partner to foster or adopt a NYC ACC dog. Transport is available if you live within the prescribed range of states. Shelter contact information: Phone number (212) 788-4000 Email [email protected] Shelter Addresses: Brooklyn Shelter: 2336 Linden Boulevard Brooklyn, NY 11208 Manhattan Shelter: 326 East 110 St. New York, NY 10029 Staten Island Shelter: 3139 Veterans Road West Staten Island, NY 10309 *** NEW NYC ACC RATING SYSTEM *** Level 1 Dogs with Level 1 determinations are suitable for the majority of homes. These dogs are not displaying concerning behaviors in shelter, and the owner surrender profile (where available) is positive. Some dogs with Level 1 determinations may still have potential challenges, but these are challenges that the behavior team believe can be handled by the majority of adopters. The potential challenges could include no young children, prefers to be the only dog, no dog parks, no cats, kennel presence, basic manners, low level fear and mild anxiety. Level 2 Dogs with Level 2 determinations will be suitable for adopters with some previous dog experience. They will have displayed behavior in the shelter (or have owner reported behavior) that requires some training, or is simply not suitable for an adopter with minimal experience. Dogs with a Level 2 determination may have multiple potential challenges and these may be presenting at differing levels of intensity, so careful consideration of the behavior notes will be required for counselling. Potential challenges at Level 2 include no young children, single pet home, resource guarding, on-leash reactivity, mouthiness, fear with potential for escalation, impulse control/arousal, anxiety and separation anxiety. Level 3 Dogs with Level 3 determinations will need to go to homes with experienced adopters, and the ACC strongly suggest that the adopter have prior experience with the challenges described and/or an understanding of the challenge and how to manage it safely in a home environment. In many cases, a trainer will be needed to manage and work on the behaviors safely in a home environment. It is likely that every dog with a Level 3 determination will have a behavior modification or training plan available to them from the behavior department that will go home with the adopters and be made available to the New Hope Partners for their fosters and adopters. Some of the challenges seen at Level 3 are also seen at Level 1 and Level 2, but when seen alongside a Level 3 determination can be assumed to be more severe. The potential challenges for Level 3 determinations include adult only home (no children under the age of 13), single pet home, resource guarding, on-leash reactivity with potential for redirection, mouthiness with pressure, potential escalation to threatening behavior, impulse control, arousal, anxiety, separation anxiety, bite history (human), bite history (dog) and bite history (other). New Hope Rescue Only Dog is not publicly adoptable. Prospective fosters or adopters need to fill out applications with New Hope Partner Rescues to save this dog.

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Below is the day-by-day calendar of “theater openings”* in September, 2020, as we enter the sixth month of winging it online — and experimenting back offline. This month will see Brian Cox as George Bernard Shaw, Harriet Harris as Eleanor Roosevelt and Damian Lewis as Oedipus the King, as well as the return of Broadway’s Boys in the Band. The Apple Family cast gets a third go-round, and there are “reunion readings” with the original Off-Broadway casts of “Hamlet in Bed” (including Annette O’Toole and John Glover) and of last year’s “Sugar in Our Wounds.” The Met offers for free its new production of “Porgy and Bess” with such Heavenly tunes as “Summertime,” just as this unsettling summer’s coming to an end, and we can try to settle in for what would normally be the beginning of the new theater season.

September offerings are not just on screens (though they’re not on conventional stages either.). A new company will launch six original plays that we can call epistolary — the audience gets involved in the letter-writing (see September 21). There is a decadent walking tour play of Greenwich Village (see September 30.).

Several ongoing series have been consistent in quality and output, several of them newly created during the pandemic.

Play-PerView (See September 12, 19 and 26) Livelabs: One Acts from MCC (which will reportedly resume in September, but has yet to make any announcements.) Viral Monologues from 24 Hour Plays (some 10 short new monologues almost every Tuesday) Playing on Air, which has offered original audio plays with starry casts since 2012, has announced no new plays this month, but they keep their old ones on their site.

There is a promising new series this month from Urban Stages, which is putting its September Fest online on Wednesdays in plays that deal head-on with a contentious America (See September 2, 9, 16 and 23.) Every Wednesday this month (and on into October), the Chicago-based International Voices Project, will present translated plays from around the world, this year for the first time virtually (which means you don’t have to be in Chicago to “attend.”).

Stars in the House, Seth Rudetsky and James Wesley’s daily variety and talk show since the pandemic began, fairly reliably presents Plays in the House — Zoom readings of well-known plays, often classics — on Wednesday and Saturday afternoons…and a Sunday matinee for teenagers.

And these shows are just what we know about. Since physical theaters were shut down in March, many shows are put together at the last minute, sometimes not even announced until the very day of their launch. (And there have been last-minute cancellations too.) Even the reliable Metropolitan Opera only announces its free online offerings for a week at a time. That’s why I will be updating this preview guide every day, and highlighting the offerings each new day with a new link up top. This calendar as of this moment offers a glimpse of what’s in store. Come back day by day for a better look. (Some of the plays listed do require advance reservation.)

A reminder that this calendar lists when the shows “open.” Some are live and available only for that one performance. Other shows are available for four days, or a week, or longer.

*My definition of theater for the purposes of this calendar generally does not extend to variety shows, cast reunions, galas, panel discussions, documentaries, classes, or interviews — of which there are plenty, many worth checking out. My focus here is on creative storytelling in performance. (I make an occasional exception for a high-profile Netathon,involving many theater artists.)

September 1

Dear Liar Bucks County Playhouse 7 p.m. available through September 4 $25-$35 Brian Cox portrays George Bernard Shaw and Marsha Mason the actress Mrs Patrick Campbell, who originated the role of Eliza in Pygmalion in this play by Jerome Kilty in which the characters read the letters they wrote to one another over 40 years.

Macbeth Bedlam 7 p.m. Shakespeare’s tragedy directed by Ryan Quinn. Come half an hour early to listen to music.

La Olla Latino Theater Company 7 p.m. ET A video of the 2016 adaptation of Plautus’ comedy about greed, “The Pot of Gold” which centers on Leo, a bit player lost amidst the din of a shady 1950s Los Angeles nightclub who finds a pot full of cash.

Britten’s Peter Grimes Metropolitan Opera 7:30 p.m. available for 23 hours

Tolerance Party: #1 “Ice-Breakers The Cell 8 p.m. $5 to $25 The first in a series, each a half-hour long. “Six strangers are brought together in a video chat by an unknown entity and are given a group task, but no one can agree what it is.” Written and directed by Joseph Hendel, but the audience has a say about what happens.

September 2

Bars and Measures Urban Stages 7 p.m. available until September 6 The first entry in Urban Stages’ September Play Fest, Idris Goodwin’s play tells the tale of two brothers. One is a classical pianist. The other is a jazz bass player. One a Christian. The other a Muslim. One living in freedom. The other in jail. Separated by bars, can the brothers reconcile their differences through the language they know best: Music? The virtual reading features the same cast as the 2019 production (pictured above): Shabazz Green, Roderick Lawrence, Abraham Makany and Salma Shaw

John Adams’s Nixon in China Metropolitan Opera 7:30 p.m. available for 23 hours

Jauria/Spain International Voices Project 8 p.m. Based on a court trial where the victim is forced to provide more details on her personal intimacy than the defendants.

September 3

The Oedipus Project Theater of War Productions 2 p.m. Live only Damian Lewis, Lesley Sharp, Clarke Peters and Kathryn Hunter perform Sophocles’s “Oedipus The King” as a way to consider the current pandemic

Berg’s Lulu Metropolitan Opera 7:30 p.m. available for 23 hours

September 4

In Love and Warcraft American Conservatory Theater 3 p.m. ET In Madhuri Shekar’s play, college senior Evie prefers the online role-playing game World of Warcraft to real life. In the game, she’s a fearless warrior with a boyfriend. In real life, she ghostwrites love letters for people, even though she’s neither been in love. When Evie becomes attracted to her client Raul, she must decide whether or not to let her powerful and sexy warrior character out in the real world. Live performances 9/4, 9/5, 9/11, 9/12, in which you can chat, or on-demand 9/18 – 9/25

Eleanor Barrington Stage Company 7:30 p.m. repeated September 5 $15 This new play about Eleanor Roosevelt, by Mark St. Germain stars Harriet Harris (who also portrayed the First Lady, diplomat and activist in the recent Ryan Murphy Netflix series “Hollywood.” as well as in a forthcoming TV series, “Atlantic Crossing.”)

The Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess Metropolitan Opera 7:30 p.m. available for two days Porgy and Bess returned to the Met stage for the first time in 30 years to open the 2019–20 season, with a cast led by Eric Owens and Angel Blue singing the familiar arias “Summertime,” “It ain’t necessarily so,” and “I got plenty of nothing,

September 6

Thomas Adès’s The Tempest Metropolitan Opera 7:30 p.m. available for 23 hours

September 9

#Nword Urban Stages 7 p.m. available until September 13 In this play by Christian Elder, a white girl calls a black boy “the n word” on the school bus. His mother confronts her mother. The event escalates.

“Take the Rubbish Out, Sasha” | Ukraine International Voices Project 8 p.m. Sasha, a colonel in the Ukrainian army, who has died of a heart failure, sees his widow Katia and his step-daughter Oksana prepare his funeral feast. A year later, the country will be engulfed in the events that can make the dead rise. Sasha is ready to be resurrected, but his family is not

September 10

Incidental Moments of the Day Apple Family Plays 7:30 p.m. Available through November 5 The third and final play in “The Apple Family: Life on Zoom” sub-series, the first of which, in April, I loved, the second of which, in July, I didn’t. Written and directed by Richard Nelson, with the same reliable five-member cast (plus one additional performer), this third installment takes place after six months of self-imposed pandemic isolation. “The Apple siblings again gather on Zoom for an evening of dinner, conversation and performance, while the world continues to sputter more and more out of control, amidst anger, loss, death and a coming election.”

September 11

Qualified Alien Here Arts 1 p.m. A puppet and their assistant petition to join the circus. Rosa Douglas and Ben Elling light a candle for the meritocracy in this short puppet play, adapted for screen.

September 12

Seneca Falls Play-PerView 7 p.m. $5-$50 This play by Jean Ann Douglas is “an anachronistic triptych through late nights in the first 72 years of the women’s suffrage movement: 72 years of… mostly a lot of waiting.” The cast includes Susannah Flood, April Matthis, Kelly McAndrew Monique St. Cyr, Erin Wilhelmi and John Zdrojeski

Tape The Shared Screen 8 p.m., available until September 21 After 10 years, three self-absorbed people are forced to reckon with the unresolved trauma of a high school love triangle.

September 16

The Incels Urban Stages 7 p.m. available until September 20 In this play by Ruth Zamoyta, two depressed, bitter men can’t find girlfriends. Can a third man convince them to put down their guns?

“All Adventurous Women Do” | Serbia International Voices Project 8 p.m. A play about the necessity of going elsewhere to fully realize one’s sexuality,

Jack Was Kind All for One Theater 8 p.m. Through October 10 Tracy Thorne wrote and performs this “intimate, confessional play examines long-seated issues of privilege and complicity.” The production will be presented live on Zoom, four times a week, Wednesday-Saturday through October 10 for limited audiences.

September 17

Laura Benanti

DO RE #METOO 9 p.m. A virtual concert of badass feminists led by Laura Benanti, Peppermint and Margaret Cho covering the most sexist songs ever written!

September 18

Downtown Variety Take 14 La MaMa ETC The launch of La MaMa’s 59th season with a virtual afterparty, featuring Belarus Free Theatre, Annie-B Parson, Stacy Stearns, Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky, D’Mani Thomas.

Cannabis! Here Arts Baba Israel, Grace Galu, and their band Soul Inscribed use music and spoken word to explore the history of cannabis in a theatrical concert based on “Smoke Signals: A Social History of Marijuana – Medical, Recreational, and Scientific” by Martin A. Lee

September 19

Sheldon Best and Chinaza Uche in Sugar in Our Wounds at MTC

Sugar in Our Wounds Play-PerView 7 p.m. A “reunion reading” (with the original Off-Broadway cast) of Donja Love’s play about a romance about a slave on a plantation during the Civil War and a passing stranger.

September 21

Artistic Stamp This new company, with scripts by six playwrights, takes “audiences” on an unusual journey, through handwritten correspondence. For each play, the actors exchange seven letters over several months with audience members becoming a character in the story, replying to the letters and playing a role in deciding the outcome. All six plays launch today.

September 23

The Silverfish Urban Stages 7 p.m. available until September 27 Meghan Loughran’s play starring Holly Davis, Nikki M. James, George Salazar and Kate Wetherhead tells the story of a young, broke couple in love thrown a curveball, and come up with a plan. “It might not be a plan that “good people” would go for, but when you’re young and in love and desperate and poor, the word “good” can mean a lot of things.”

“Testosterone” | Germany International Voices Project 8 p.m. This comedy offers a parable about toxic masculinities and the limits of liberal do-goodery in extreme times.

September 26

Hamlet in Bed Play-PerView 7 p.m. A “reunion reading” of Michael Laurences Off-Broadway play featuring Annette O’Toole and John Glover

September 30

“Decomposed Theatre” | Romania International Voices Project 8 p.m. Imagine the fragments of a shattered mirror. The challenge before us is to reconstruct the original

Voyeur: The Windows of Toulouse Lautrec Bated Breath Theater Company In this open air, intimate theatrical experience, you and five other masked audience members will be guided through the dreams of iconic artist Toulouse-Lautrec as he recalls his final absinthe-laced years living and working in Montmartre. The sidewalks, doorways and windows of Greenwich Village become the setting as live accompaniment collides with the city’s soundscape, transporting you into the bohemian world of 1899 Paris.

Suddenly dancing The Madison in The Boys in the Band: Robin De Jesus, Michael Benjamin Washington, Andrew Rannells, Jim Parsons

Boys in the Band Netflix

A video capture of the 2018 starry Broadway production of Mart Crowley’s landmark gay play. (Subscription required.)

September 2020 Online Theater Openings: What’s streaming day by day Below is the day-by-day calendar of “theater openings”* in September, 2020, as we enter the sixth month of winging it online -- and experimenting back offline.

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#PHnews: RT-PCR no longer mandatory for Davao-bound passengers

DAVAO CITY – Mayor Sara Z. Duterte said Wednesday the requirement for reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) swab test results for Davao-bound air travelers are no longer mandatory. Instead, Mayor Sara said RT-PCR testing results will be done upon exit at the Davao International Airport (DIA). Earlier, Davao-bound passengers were advised to submit a negative RT-PCR taken 24-72 hours before their departure date upon check-in at any airport of origin. The city government required a negative RT-PCR after the data from the City Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit (CESU) showed that the highest confirmed coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) cases in this city consisted of travelers from Manila. “After so much discussion during the meeting with the National Task Force (NTF) and Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) we agreed to make the RT-PCR requirement mandatory upon exit at DIA. It will no longer be mandatory for check-in, it is permissive,” Duterte explained in a radio interview. She added that the testing done in the city is free of charge. However, Mayor Sara clarified that the passengers can still get their RT-PCR negative results within 24-72 hours of their departure date. “If they want hassle-free travel they can secure it and they can go out at the airport and do their quarantine at home. For those who don’t have the RT-PCR, we test them without exception. They should be prepared to wait at least 24 hours for their results to be released,” she explained. Meanwhile, a holding area for arriving passengers at DIA has been established by the city government here. Angel Sumagaysay, head of the Public Security and Safety Command Center (PCC), said the holding area is for arriving passengers whose negative RT-PCR test result has lapsed the 72-hour requirement or failed to get tested at all. “We prepared this for those passengers arriving in Davao City without negative Covid-19 test. They will undergo RT-PCR testing and they will stay at the holding area while waiting for their results,” Sumagaysay said. Sumagaysay said the holding area can cater to up to 50 people and is equipped with folding beds and mattresses for passengers waiting for their test results. The airport holding area is only one of five holding areas arranged by the city government for arriving passengers. Dr. Josephine Villafuerte, City Health Officer (CHO) chief, said arriving passengers for RT-PCR swabbing will need to temporarily stay in the isolation area in order not to expose their families if they turn out positive. Duterte assured that the city government will still impose strict health protocols at the holding facility such as safe physical distancing to reduce the chances of Covid-19 transmission. (PNA)

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* Philippine News Agency. "RT-PCR no longer mandatory for Davao-bound passengers." Philippine News Agency. https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1109748 (accessed July 23, 2020 at 04:58AM UTC+14).

* Philippine News Agency. "RT-PCR no longer mandatory for Davao-bound passengers." Archive Today. https://archive.ph/?run=1&url=https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1109748 (archived).

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The Latest: France sees drop in COVID-19 hospitalizations | World News

The number of weekly infections per 100,000 people in France has now been falling for 14 straight days, and some doctors say they’re starting to see signs of relief in over-stretched ICUs.

But it remains too early to say whether the one-day drop in hospital numbers means France has hit the peak in this second surge of the pandemic.

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HERE’S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE VIRUS OUTBREAK:

— Second round of lockdowns brings misery for Europe’s Michelin-rated chefs

— President-elect Joe Biden faces tough choice of whether to back virus lockdowns

— Mexico reaches 1 million virus cases, nears 100,000 deaths

— French doctors use their experience t o improve treatments for COVID-19 patients

— San Diego restaurants, gyms sue for right to operate indoors despite pandemic

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Follow AP’s coverage at https://apnews.com/hub/coronavirus-pandemic and https://apnews.com/UnderstandingtheOutbreak

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HERE’S WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING:

Twelve of the 400 are prison officers while the rest are inmates. The cases are detected from five prisons in different parts of the country.

Sri Lankan prisons are highly congested with more than 26,000 inmates crowded in facilities designed to hold about 10,000.

Sri Lanka’s total number of positive cases reached 16,582 on Sunday with 53 fatalities.

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“Sometimes you feel that whatever you built up over the years is slipping like sand through your fingers. It gives you this kind of fear,” he told The Associated Press.

“All that cannot just be replaced by a box and a plastic tray. That is just impossible,” Herman said amid the whirl of his new restaurant, Le Pristine, in the Belgian port of Antwerp.

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NEW DELHI — India has reported 41,100 new cases of coronavirus in the past 24 hours, taking the country’s overall tally since the pandemic began to 8.79 million.

The Health Ministry on Sunday also reported 447 deaths in the same period, driving total fatalities to 129,635.

On Sunday, New Delhi registered 7,340 new coronavirus cases, including 96 deaths.

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HARTFORD, Conn. — Connecticut’s two U.S. senators were self-isolating Saturday after a member of Democratic Gov. Ned Lamont’s staff tested positive for COVID-19.

Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy each tweeted Saturday that they had not had close contact with the staffer but were taking the step out of an abundance of caution.

Blumenthal tweeted Saturday afternoon that he had “just returned from being tested myself and am currently self-isolating.”

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Nevada reported 2,269 new cases and 15 additional deaths on Saturday, topping the record of 1,857 new cases set Friday.

Sisolak warned Nevadans earlier in the week that if the state fails to slow the spread of the virus within two weeks, he will be forced to reimplement stricter measures.

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The rate stayed short of that on Saturday, at 2.47%, he said.

“But that could change,” the Democratic mayor tweeted, warning that the city was facing “a critical weekend” in combating the pandemic.

About 280,000 students have attended in person, far fewer than the city originally expected.

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ATHENS, Greece — Deaths from the coronavirus have topped 1,000 in Greece, and authorities say that over half occurred since Oct. 18.

Authorities have stepped up enforcement of a 9 p.m. – 5 a.m. curfew, including by making arrests.

Their 15 party guests, all university students from western Europe, were fined 300 euros ($355) each but not arrested.

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BALTIMORE — The number of people testing positive for the coronavirus has soared to a new daily high in the United States.

Data from Johns Hopkins University indicates the number of confirmed cases reached 184,514 on Friday, as the number of people infected continues to surge.

The seven-day rolling positivity rate also rose over the past two weeks from 6.4 to 9.6, an increase of about 50%, even as the number of tests performed has grown.

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